MVC is Dead?

Henrik Gedenryd Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se
Mon May 1 13:47:00 UTC 2000


Regarding the MVC issue; here is the fabled posting. We may want to start a
thread about the semantics of negation to settle the debate.

Dan Ingalls wrote:

> We do not plan to decommission (excise from the release) MVC until the time
> when nearly everyone who uses Squeak does so as an environment unto itself,
> not as a free alternative to other similar Smalltalks where MVC compatibility
> is important.  We feel that this could happen within the current year (but we
> had the same feeling a year ago ;-).  Whenever the time comes, we will produce
> a "Last Picture Show" image that is the cleanest and most complete MVC-based
> image possible, so that it can be used and maintained indefinitely by
> motivated MVC survivalists.

(Are we becoming Kremlin-watchers here by the way?)

I feel that it may be a theoretical distinction, with the new project
loading mechanism, whether something is "in" the image or not.

Henrik






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