Les Tyrrell wrote:
> 
> I would argue _slightly_ against what you are proposing here.  I do agree that
> as far as the user is concerned, they should not be presented with a bewildering
> variety of places to go looking for bits and pieces of code.  However, I would
> not want that to mean that there is literally only a single repository in
> existence- at least not in the sense of one server, sitting on one machine, for
> the entire planet.
> 
> HOWEVER.  I *DO* want it to feel like that is the case, in the sense that the
> user is presented the illusion of having rapid, unified access to everything
> ever written for Squeak ( or any other Smalltalk ) on the entire planet, sitting
> on their hard drive.
> 
> I think we could learn an awful lot from the way the Internet manages to remain
> operational even when large chunks of it are down.  And notice that we talk
> about it as "The Internet", not "That wild crazy collection of random bits and
> pieces of machines here and there".  That says something important, I think.


I think SCAN fills most of these needs.
It's already working, it's made in Squeak, it's
free.
I lobby for SCAN !
Karl

(Being a scandinavian has nothing to do with this...) 
(Sorry for the bad joke)