Let us Andreas propose a solution because he is the main packager of  
FFI.
Else I will roll back to 7053 and ship 3.9 with FFI

> Ok - FFI support is removed. But how to get it back? I havent found
> the Monticello packages on the usual places (PackageLoader/SqueakMap,
> SqueakSource.com)
>
> I was lucky to see the mcz still be available from
> http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/ but it was not loadable
> in the first place.

What was the problem?

> If one wants to use SQLite, ODBC, ExternalWebBrowser, ... FFI is  
> required.
>
> Any newbee loading one of these packages using PackageLoader will  
> run into
> trouble, declare Squeak as useless and will soon delete Squeak from  
> it's harddisk!
> This will definitely not help the community to grow - instead we  
> may end
> up with only a few people (most of them burned out like Marcus) :(

agreed

> I feel a little bit sad that there is no reliable process behind  
> all that -
> next time we may decide to remove Morphic in the last minute.

We tried.
But this is difficult when the communication between people is not easy.

> There may be reasons for Andreas to get FFI removed (IMHO I agree  
> that FFI
> should not be a part of the base image) but why speak up so late?
>
> Dont know how usefull the initial "Release Plan for 3.9" really  
> was ...
> (see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5645)

At least it was for us as a goal and we are pretty there. No?

> However - I'm happy that a new version is out. :)
> Thanks for all the hard work!
>
> bye
> Torsten
>
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