[ANN] new update 6707

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Dec 20 13:05:39 UTC 2005


+2 :)

On 20 déc. 05, at 12:31, Cees De Groot wrote:

> On 12/20/05, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>> PSPS: I encourage everybody to play with the system. Now if the
>> majority does not like what we did we will
>> take all the consequences. As in politic, we should learn from
>> feedback without losing our souls. I think that there
>> are enough space for multiple distributions of squeak.
>>
> Heh. Well, two *facts* here for everyone who is concerned about  
> this move:
>
> - An overwhelming majority of the community loved the original
> research, and lots of people were drooling over the possibilities this
> would open (like tackling the Collections, Streams, Morphic
> hierarchies for starters ;-)).
>
> - The update updates only a couple of core packages (Kernel, System,
> Tools) and one non-core package (Monticello). Which means that all the
> other stuff, including two GUI frameworks, in the image, is not
> affected by Traits. Therefore I'd be extremely surprised if Tweak
> would somehow have major trouble living in this image (or any other
> tool).
>
> Think, Check, Google, ReadTheMailArchives before you talk, people...
>
> There are some community members silently pitting awful amounts of
> time into 3.9a, and shouting "Fire" where there isn't even a faintest
> glow is no way to reward them for their efforts.
>
>




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