Doug, Andreas, Stephane,

Thanks for the explanation.  I certainly agree that the string refactoring 
is an important thing to do, and sooner is better.  I have yet to see an 
existing codebase get migrated from 8 bit characters to wide characters 
that didn't invovle some (or a lot of) pain.   Squeak seems to be making 
the transition "relatively" smoothly.

I also agree that fewer releases less often is probably appropriate.  What 
I'm used to seeing is "the date is set, so we'll just pull features and 
keep the date if things aren't ready", which often leads to the next 
release starting before the current version is released, multiple parallel 
streams, merging hell, etc.  ...and then an important customer need some 
feature we don't have, so we delay everything and squeeze it in to get the 
sale....  (I am speaking hypothetically here, of course.  I don't mean to 
imply that this actually occurs in any real software development 
organization ;-)  )  I would hate to see Squeak get sucked into that 
vortex, and it seems that you are all aware of the dangers.

                Thanks.
                -Dean
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