Removing Etoys (was Re: A process proposal for 3.10)

jvuletich at dc.uba.ar jvuletich at dc.uba.ar
Wed Oct 18 13:10:24 UTC 2006


With some risk of not sounding nice:
Are you volunteering to help that happen?

> As I have understood, there is a new eToy implementation in progress
> inside
> Tweak.
> We can wait until this implementation is a bit stable.
> When this will be true, the other part depending from eToy1 will be able
> to
> migrate to eToy2.
> After that we can start to deliver an official squeak distribution with
> eToy2 and eToy1 side by side.
> Then after w ahile we can start to evict eToy1.
>
> This will save some efforts, at cost of a bit larger image (but avoiding
> some hours of work can be a good exchange ;)
>
>
> On 10/18/06, jvuletich at dc.uba.ar <jvuletich at dc.uba.ar> wrote:
>>
>> Of course.
>>
>> That's why I'm asking the Board to decide, or advice.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>> > As Juan wrote, removing Etoys from Morphic while keeping it both
>> > loadable and functioning properly is futile.
>> >
>> > So either you leave it in, or you consciously give up compatibility
>> > with anyone using Etoys now, like the squeakland distribution, OLPC
>> > distribution, Smalland, the Spanish LinEx version, the Japanese
>> > Nihongo version etc. Already synchronizing Squeakland and 3.8 was
>> > hard, nobody has tried yet for 3.9, but this would make it outright
>> > impossible.
>> >
>> > I'm *not* saying you should not do this, but please be aware of the
>> > possible consequences.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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