Flow 2 alpha 1 released

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Aug 16 18:02:58 UTC 2002


Tim --

I think Squeak on Acorns will be big in the very near future ....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 6:33 PM -0700 8/16/02, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>Craig Latta <craig.latta at netjam.org> is claimed by the authorities 
>to have written:
>
>>  -	greatly simplified installation
>I _like_ this. Sticking binary encoded stream after a do it; neat.
>
>>	I've tested on GNU/Linux, Windows 98SE, and WinCE. If you'd like to
>>  help test on other platforms, please let me know!
>It ain't gonna work on Acorn without a lot of work that may not be worth
>it. Even I have to admit that not many people actually use Squeak on an
>Acorn :-( Threads are the problem here. I wonder if there is any
>possible way to avoid them? It would potentially be of great value for
>no-OS machines as well, so there could be a good reason to look into it.
>
>Somewhere in your code and comments I spotted a musing about whether one
>can have plugins that depend upon others as a way to split things up
>more. Absolutely we can. They can load each other, unload or simply do
>cleanup when a companion is unloaded, all that good stuff. It would make
>ports to other machines easier if unneeded parts could simply be ignored
>rather than being stubbed out.
>
>It's about time this got serious consideration for the main stream.
>
>tim
>--
>Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
>Useful random insult:- Has an inferiority complex, but not a very good one.


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