On 31-Jan-05, at AM 01:20, Peter Crowther wrote:

> This is actually a third problem with Squeak as an OS project... It's
> too big, and does too many things, none well enough to be 
> best-of-breed.
> So there's always a better tool to use for any particular problem.  Who
> would rally round the new, slimmer image?  Certainly not the
> Croquet/Teatime crowd.  Not the UI folks.  It wouldn't do multimedia...
> Really, it's a bit difficult to know who would take it and use it.

I would, as a web application developer using Seaside. Assuming that 
most people only uses and knows one area (out of web application 
frameworks, multimedia, etc), would it not be good if we have a slim 
image that includes only the bare essentials? That would reduce any 
unnecessary dependencies and also allow each group of people to focus 
on/test their part more easily. And hopefully for each group of people, 
a fatter image/distribution will be adopted, with the slim image as the 
base. Someone mentioned the reverse of majorShrink (sorry, forgot the 
name and the person's name), I thought that sounds good.

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