I am standing by Juan's proposal, do you? (was Re: Removing Etoys, Morphic and other friends)

Bryce Kampjes bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
Wed Nov 1 00:13:42 UTC 2006


Adrian Lienhard writes:
 > +1
 > 
 > I wonder, what is the opinion of the Squeakland people?
 > 
 > The arguments for keeping etoys in Squeak seem even weaker to me if  
 > the actual stakeholders do not state "yes, this is important for us  
 > because we plan to keep our Squeakland fork in sync with future  
 > Squeak versions". If this is not the case it does not make sense to  
 > have a non maintained version in the main image (and that is what we  
 > have now). If there are people willing to remove etoys we should not  
 > miss the opportunity!

+1

A cleaner smaller Morphic helps for all non-eToy's uses. Unless eToys
is actively maintained in the squeak-dev images then it's better to
remove it and point eToys users to the "good" versions.

Letting it rot will create confusion.

Bryce



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