By the way
	
	Traits are ready to get in but I forgot to mention them, strange.
	Alan always said to nathanael that he would like to have a smalltalk 
with traits, so we have a good opportunity.
	Now this would be important to know if someone is against.

Stef

On 28 sept. 04, at 16:34, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> hi guys
>
> We think that this is important that we build some plans for 3.8. As 
> we already mentioned it, if someone needs
> urgently 3.8, he should do it.  We (marcus doug and me) would like to 
> rest a bit and get some real stuff done.
>
> We discuss with diego and others about a good date and the idea would 
> be to have 3.8beta the 15th of november
> and 3.8 ready for 15 of december. (no gamma phase this time). We lose 
> too much time with that. Just some tentative images.
>
> In addition to m17n,  what we would like to see with this version:
> 	- services (so please have a look and comment)
> 	- shout (already ready to go as package)
> 	- OmniBrowser (with refactorings :))
> 	- refactorings integrated with services in all the browers
> 	- a lot of fixes (so please continue to review and give your point of 
> view!)
> 	- a lot of tests we need more!!! Really everybody can write tests.
> 	- excellent diego look
> 	- more AST and compiler cleans (I should check with marcus): the AST 
> of RB + visitor is already in so consider
> 	to see if you can use it for your tool.
> 	- new preference browser
> 	- clean of the system dictionary (see my next email)
> 	- SM20 with configuration (yes yes)
> 	- we are thinking having SmallLand as full image but we will see if 
> diego has still the steam for that.
> 	But indeed now the unstable stream idea is really helping us.
> 	
> I certainly forgot stuff. But this is important that we have a clear 
> date in mind, so
> as you may have noticed the harvesting is going much faster than ever 
> and ned is not
> back yet :)
>
> Again we would need a Etoy and multimedia guide. I repeat We need a 
> Etoy guide and Multimedia guide.
> I suggest the cool ones in the community to try SqueakUnstable (which 
> is quite stable since now).
>
> Stef
>
>