+1 for wxSqueak

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Hilaire Fernandes
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 11:19 AM
> To: Squeak Devel
> Subject: SqueakGTK or SqueakWX mainstream in Squeak.org
> 
> (Still with the idea to get a core Squeak.org version, free software
> community compatible)
> 
> A few days ago Bruno as announced some progress in SqueakGTK work. Last
> year there were this couple of release with wxSqueak, since then it
> seems to be quiet.
> 
> Nevertheless, should we not give a chance to these projects and
> carefully examine how we could take one of them to be mainstream in
> Squeak.org.
> 
> There are several benefices to integrate a third party widgetery:
> 
> * We do no need to maintain it, only the binding
> * Squeak could be use to write more traditional GUI application
> * It will make us closer to the Squeak.org version, free software
> community compatible
> 
> Next come the Morphic issue if it can be relisenced:
> 1. Morphic could be used to bootstrap the GIU Squeak.org version
> 2. GUI IDE tools could be developed with ToolBuilder
> 3. Next an unloadable version of Morphic could be arranged.
> 
> Even if we can not relicense Morphic, we could get a reduced version of
> Squeak.org without it, and also the possibility to load it and embed it
> in the GUI (as it was demonstrated there
> http://www.swerlingphoto.com/squeak/wxmorphic/WxMorphic.html)
> 
> In this vision of a Squeak.org, Morphic will be an extension canvas
> which can be load in Squeak.org at will.
> 
> Many of us would like to keep and improve Morphic, many resources were
> developed for it. That way we could get the best of the two world.
> 
> Bruno Luca, Rob Gayvert is it something that sound appealing to you?
> 
> What do think other?
> 
> Does it sound appealing or is just nuts ?
> 
> Hilaire