On 2006 October 18 09:59, jvuletich at dc.uba.ar wrote:
> Hi Milan,
>
> It is hard to say, but it is a huge effort. May be in the 1000 hours
> range. May be much more than that. I don't think it's worth doing.

Thanks Juan, that's what I suspected.  And I agree that 3.9 will be here for 
eToys guys like I, and Tweak-based eToys probably better and more fun.

Milan

>
> For eToying, I'd use the Squeakland release, or may be 3.8 or 3.9. Or the
> new Tweak based, when available.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
> > Juan,
> >
> > Once eToys are removed (and as you suggested perhaps 20-30 hours work),
> > do you
> > think it is reasonbly possible to have them loadable again? I am not
> > asking
> > you to do the "reload" piece of work, rather asking about your feeling
> > about
> > whether reloadability is possible, and what number of hours would you
> > estimate to make eToys loadable (if such question even makes sense :) -
> > in very rough number, 10, 100, 1000 hours sort of thing). The reason I am
> > asking, and perhaps there are others in this camp, is that for my
> > personal playing with squeak I mostly play with eToys, and would have to
> > either help
> > the reloading effort (which I will, but my abilities cannot guarantee
> > much :) ) or switch to squeakland image. In any case, work towards a
> > small well-defined "squeak core" (with hopefully loadable packages) 
> > makes sense.
> >
> > Thanks Milan
> >
> > On 2006 October 18 06:10, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> >> So, this seems a good time to remove eToys from the official release. I
> >> can team with Pavel and Stef (and any other volunteer) to do this.
> >>
> >> However, it will take some 20 or 30 hours of work, and I think we need
> >> to know if this will be adopted, otherwise I won't spend time on it.
> >>
> >> I guess the Board could lead, and make a decision, or enlight me about
> >> the decision process for issues like this one.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Juan Vuletich
> >>
> >> Marcus Denker wrote:
> >> > The SqueakLand people don't use 3.9, and I am quite sure they never
> >>
> >> will.
> >>
> >> > Etoys 1 is past live-cycle. There is 3.8/OLPC which is a cool Etoys
> >> > image for eToys1.
> >> >
> >> > For the future, there needs to be a new eToys2 that is maintainable.
> >> > There is a very cool demo of a next-gen eToys based on Tweak.
> >> > That seems, to me, much more the thing to take a look at for the
> >>
> >> future
> >>
> >> > eToy system.
> >> >
> >> >        Marcus