Re: Big Bang [Re: Proposal for Squeak 3.8 release schedule]Hi Andreas,
You wrote:
Hi Goran,
Let me try to answer your questions:
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- Is Tweak meant to be something that can work on top of official
Squeak, or is it only targeted at Croquet? Croquet is currently not a "fork" of Squeak, but it may very well turn out to become one. And if the principal developers behind Tweak are the Croqueteers, it may perhaps turn into something Croquet specific.
That depends on your definition of "Squeak" and "Croquet". Some people take the (overly simplified) point of view that Croquet is ultimately about 3D environments but let me tell you: It is not. It is ultimately about collaboration and communcation and there are many different ways of doing this, some of which imply a 3D space (having the vast advantage of providing context for the collaboration and a natural model for navigating large spaces) and some of which don't. *All* of them, however will require a distributed, loosely coupled, secure messaging model of replicated computation between (mutually distrusting) objects and peers. Which is what we internally understand as "Croquet"; a much broader, much wider ranging collaboration architecture that includes many different areas of communication, many different classes of devices, many different user interfaces. (and yes, we really aren't there by a long shot but then again I will want to have something to work on five years from now ;-)
Given that definition I can say with utter certainty that Tweak is meant to run on top of Croquet, with "collaboration builtin".
Would you please elaborate on this ?
What is it meant by "collaboration builtin" and why does Tweak (what exactly is Tweak, anyway) depends on builtin collaboration ?
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Cheers,
PhiHo.
P.S:
BTW, IIRC, at some stage you (on behalf of the Croqueteers ?) promised (?) that Croquet would be available as a package on SM ?
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