What is Squeak? (Was Re: A roadmap for 3.9)

Hannes Hirzel hirzel at spw.unizh.ch
Mon Dec 13 09:49:34 UTC 2004


stéphane ducasse wrote:
> A final point mark, is that we have a different vision of what is a 
> community: for us this is not a bunch of forks
> not communicating not sharing between them. At least this is what we 
> tried to avoid but there is one instrument missing a
> REAL space for communication and milestone maker.

It depends on what you mean by 'a bunch of forks'.

I rather see it as a wealth of different usages using a common base 
image. This seems to be the case actually with 3.8.  At least we have 
important steps in that direction. See as well my other post

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-December/085991.html

(lean basic image at the beginning)


Hannes




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