Against wastefull forks (Re: Taking Ownership of Squeak (WASRe: Python at Disney))

Roger Vossler rvossler at qwest.net
Tue Mar 13 02:37:57 UTC 2001


Hi Gang,
    Exactly! One size does not fit all. Moreover, Squeak was supposed to be
small enough to be understood by one person who would presumably use it to
do his/her thing, whatever that may be.
    Thus, Squeak should not become one huge, modularized swamp. There should
be lots of little Squeaks, each oriented toward its own application or
problem domain. If necessary, the Official Squeak from SqC should remain
small enough for one mortal to comprehend and hackable for ones own purposes.
Instead of building up the Empire of Squeak, we should concentrate upon using
Squeak to build insanely great applications. Onward to World Domination! :-)
Squeakily Yours, Roger.....

PS: The End (as promised) :-)

Florin X Mateoc wrote:
> 
> Because it would be another group of professional developers working full-time
> on the core Squeak (not on Squeak applications) from a different perspective.

[snip]

> I am simply aware that one size does not fit them all.
> All of these different groups (let's not forget SuSE ;-) could provide bases
> appropriate for different kinds of applications: the likes of multimedia-Squeak,
> server-Squeak, cluster-Squeak, distributed Squeak,
> computationally-intensive-Squeak, classless-Squeak, meta-Squeak, embedded
> Squeak, you get the point. Some of them could be commercial efforts, some
> research-academic. Maybe not all these niches would be filled, but this would
> certainly be one necessary step in our progress towards global domination.
> I would not see this as competition (at most friendly competition), but I am
> convinced that the materialization of any other perspective would need a group
> of full-time people.
> 
> Florin

[snip]





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