Lessons learnt from been an integrator

Florian Minjat flo.minjat at free.fr
Wed Aug 25 23:23:40 UTC 2004


I am really sorry for this previous mail, I'm getting too tired...
It is really interesting to read the internal affairs of the developments of Squeak. I am looking 
forward to test the next image!

Florian

Florian Minjat a dit le 26/08/2004 01:20:

> C'est marrant cette mailling list, tout le monde dit la même chose sur 
> 50 mails :P (je rigole, c'est super intéressant...). En tout cas ca me 
> distrait de mon rapport!
> Pour les mp3, j'ai réussi à les chopper, je les écouterais plus tard, là 
> j'ai du massive attack c'est très bon :)
> 
> Florian
> 
> rrobbes a dit le 25/08/2004 23:24:
> 
>>
>> This might be redundant by now, but I too think it would
>> be a great move forward to include OmniBrowser.
>> I might have to rework a bit since OB has changed since,
>> but the last version of services I did added refactorings
>> to OmniBrowser, so not all fonctionalities would be lost ...
>> Cheers,
>>   Romain
>> Avi Bryant a écrit:
>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 25, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Colin Putney wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to know what the community thinks about this. Is the 
>>>> default browser painful enough that we should replace it ASAP, even 
>>>> if that means delaying new features? Or is the default browser good 
>>>> enough that we should keep using it until OmniBrowser represents a 
>>>> substantial improvement?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My vote: replacing the default browser with OmniBrowser, even with 
>>> short term loss of functionality, is absolutely the right thing to 
>>> focus energy on for now.  I say this because OB (in its simple form, 
>>> as a framework for browser building, rather than with all the extra 
>>> stuff I know you're planning) is an enabler for all kinds of cool 
>>> work.  Shout, Traits, Monticello, Chuck, and no doubt lots of other 
>>> projects we don't know about, would benefit from having the lower 
>>> levels of OB solidly in place - and neglecting them to work on the 
>>> higher levels is an opportunity cost.  It's an effort multiplier 
>>> thing - first get rid of the bottleneck of the standard browser so 
>>> that everyone can play, then go off and do the fun stuff (while 
>>> watching everyone else do fun stuff on top of the basic OB at the 
>>> same time).
>>> My 0.02 EUR,
>>> Avi
>>>
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