I do not undestand. Why a fork?  this is natural evolution....

Stef

On 16 avr. 04, at 18:26, Alan Grimes wrote:

> Doug Way wrote:
>
>>> Of course, there's a number of large things that people have 
>>> possibly planned for 3.8, which may make it tricky to reach a dual 
>>> 3.8/4.0 release date around June/July:
>>>
>>> - The 64-bit project.  (Part of 4.0, not 3.8, but will be worked on 
>>> in parallel with 3.8 and released at the same time.)
>>
>
> Since making the VM 64-bit clean does not affect the image and because 
> this is a major portability issue, I see no reason not to wait until 
> 4.0....  However, making an actual 64-bit image would be such a major 
> change that it would merit being treated as a fork "Squeak 64 1.0"....
>