>Robin --
>
>FWIW, I think your questions were quite to the point. I think Andrew is 
>mainly frustrated because he likes to find and fix bugs and I sense he was 
>willing to try to find them if you had given him more info.
>
>I have two characterizations about the system right now after having used 
>it since we started building it. The most important one is that bugs (even 
>deep ones) have been pretty easy to find and fix. And, since the VM 
>process is mostly machine generated from the VM simulator, most VM bugs 
>have been exactly the same on all platforms. This has helped alot. 
>However, there are quite a few more "soft bugs" (those that bring up a 
>notify window but can usually just be ignored) than one would like even in 
>an experimental system.
>      The other characterization I have is that there is just a lot of 
> important stuff that is working very solidly under extreme conditions. I 
> make up and give most of the "Squeak Central" demos and I always try to 
> make what we show be beyond the general state of things today. So, while 
> we are not interested in competing with Java or the WWW (or MS), it's 
> important for me so show a lot of stuff that "programmers of the orthodox 
> world" think is really difficult (or even intractable), especially with 
> the small amount of code we use. I have had a very good experience over 
> the years in generating interesting but quickly fixable bugs via this 
> process. This bodes well for more stable releases to come.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan

I'd like you tell us your 'trickies' bugs....

We (www.smalltalking.net) are doing some diffusion events in Argentina, and 
I'd like to impress the auditory with this tips.... :-)

TIA,

Diego Gomez Deck