--- "Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at mucow.com> wrote:
 
> Nothing compels anyone to use the alpha development versions.  There 
> has a been a stable squeak (2.8) for quite some time.

Good point, Andrew. But -- and I allow for the possibility, even the
probability that I'm missing something very central here -- it isn't clear to
me that anyone is fixing bugs in 2.8 (assuming there are any) or that there's
any obvious way to add the cool new 3.x stuff into a 2.8 image. This includes
most if not all of the modularization stuff that I think we really need to have
to make forward progress a seriously feasible undertaking for anyone other than
SqueakC and a handful of other insiders.

FWIW, it was _my_ impression that 3.0 -- with its Morphic default and its
project-based load process -- was more likely to be the stable, extensible
product going forward. I saw 2.8 as a sort of holding pattern. Of course, I'm
not tied into SqueakC so I could be seriously wrong here.


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