Not very visible Squeak-dev set at squeak.org

Serge Stinckwich Serge.Stinckwich at info.unicaen.fr
Sat Jul 7 12:30:49 UTC 2007


Blake a écrit :
> On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:32:06 -0700, Hilaire Fernandes 
> <hilaire at ofset.org> wrote:
> 
>> It would be nice if the Squeak-dev images initiative was more visible 
>> in the Squeak.org. What about adding it in the orange menu Links or 
>> even better in the Download green menu?
>>
>> Every time a new programmer to Squeak want to take a try I point it to 
>> squeak-dev because it comes with the interesting packages/extension 
>> installed for developer. It will be very helpful when promoting squeak 
>> if we could have these more visible.
> 
> And to think, just yesterday there was a complaint that Squeak-dev (and 
> SqueakLight) were too visible and caused confusion about what was official.
> 
> I like Squeak-dev a lot, too, mind you, and would tend to recommend it 
> over vanilla for developers I wanted to lure in. It has so many of the 
> comforts of home (wherever that was before you found Squeak)....


I think Squeak-dev should be the default one. The default Squeak image 
that could be download from the web site should be thought as a kind of 
Linux Kernel and Squeak-dev more as a Linux distribution (for developers).

-- Serge Stinckwich
http://doesnotunderstand.free.fr/




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