Tweak mainstream in Squeak

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Jul 10 11:02:06 UTC 2006


No problem we are the bad guys to blame....

Stef (the random refactorer)

> Lex Spoon wrote:
>> Hilaire is only asking what the status and expectations about a  
>> usable
>> Tweak are.  It took a lot of asking, and apparently the answer is  
>> that
>> you have to go back and convert a 3.8 image to a Tweak one.  This is
>> different from Morphic, where Morphic was initially available in
>> Squeak right beside MVC.
>
> But what is your point, exactly? That Tweak is to blame for changes  
> in 3.9 that render 3.9 incompatible with 3.8 to such an extent that  
> Tweak doesn't work out of the box? Contrary to which other 3.8  
> based environments (iSqueak, Croquet, TinLizzie) run Tweak just fine.
>
> And for the records, the reason why Morphic was initially available  
> in Squeak right beside MVC was because the people who worked on it  
> (SqC) had control over BOTH. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said  
> about Tweak and 3.9 so unless your point is that you're screwed  
> when you don't have control over parts that you depend on (to which  
> I wholeheartedly agree), then I don't get the point you're trying  
> to make.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>



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