Am 12.05.2006 um 03:17 schrieb Kendall Shaw:

> The fact that squeak has it's own desktop, effectively makes it  
> it's own platform for the purposes of desktop applications.
>
> If your program doesn't look exactly like every other program and  
> use exactly the same procedure they've had to use for every  
> program, then game over, you might as well not have even bothered  
> to write the program.

So Firefox shouldn't have been written? iTunes? Winamp? Etc.?

> I don't think you could easily distribute it as an rpm or a debian  
> package etc. and deal with dependencies between squeak  
> applications. I can't use installshield to integrate it into  
> someone's squeak applications.

I think your utterly wrong here.

> For all practical purposes, a desktop application written in squeak  
> will only be used by squeak programmers. Note the term: "desktop  
> application".

And I think you'll be proven wrong with Sophie:

	http://www.geeksrus.com/sophie/2006-05-09.html

- Bert -