goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> wrote:
> > Maybe it was somewhat late last night ;-) But got a little depressed
> > with all that stuff waiting and not that much happening... especially
> > with the idea of having yet-another Squeak release with no enduser-visible
> > changes at all... I started to feel envisioning the harvesters like someone 
> > dusting off all those great artifacts in the "Smalltalk Museum" After a
> > lot of work, everything is nicely documented, sparcling clean... 
> > This is not to say that well factored, documented code is not important:
> > It is! But it can't be a purpose, it's a necessity. (to paraphrase Dee
> > Hock)... 
> >        Marcus
> 
> Right. But perhaps we will all need to get used to the fact that most of
> the "exciting stuff" happens in packages and not in the base image.
Yes. To put it positively - eventually, most of the action in Squeak
land (not SqueakLand) will be with new package announcements, and new
configuration releases (which include the new packages, and releases of
the latest), and the image releases will be events that interest mostly
the people that maintain packages. A new image will be like a release
XFree - nobody users care, until a few months later applications start
showing off the new rendering features, or new applications are possible
because some previous bug/complication has been removed.

The cool-for-users stuff will come as people start maintaining
unofficial configurations, which we could start thinking about doing, if
someone is interested. 

Daniel