Hi 

I'm restarting to play with Squeak and I'm really familiar 
with the mailing-list so here is a list of questions I have: 

**I would like to know if there is a way to propose new improvements
for the smalltalk kernel. 

For example: it could be really good to have an automatic 
initialization protocol like in Clos, to avoid to have to define
everywhere this boring
	new 
		^ super new initialize

in CLOS the make-instance method is calling the initialize-instance
for ALL the objects in the system. In Smalltalk, we would just have 
to redefine Behavior>>new to call Object>>initialize.
We could let basicNew for emergency purpose. 

**I tried several times to get automatic update from the server
but I NEVER succeeded. Is there somethign wrong?

**The mailing list is quite buzy. Is there no plans to have a newgroup?
I know that some of you think that Squeak is not ready for the mainstream
people but this would help people that are interested to communicate more 
easily.

**Long time ago somebody said that I was starting to port the
Refactoring Browser.  Is this project still alive? I discussed with
John Brant at OOPSLA and he told me that at the refactoring engine
level he did not see problems.


**I tried Squeak 2.6 on Unix and I got a lot of error linked with the 
BallonEngine, while on the mac and PC I got no problem at all. 


** The uiuc server is often pretty difficult to obtain. Yesterday for
the first time I was able to play with the music (just because I never
thought before that I could download another midi file). It could be
fun to have a small set of midi file on the Squeak ftp site too.


Stephane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
"if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do 
different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today 
might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes

University of Bern, Institut fuer informatik and Mathematik
IAM-SCG, 10 neubruckstrasse, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.