[Meta] Standard packages?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Jul 23 08:13:02 UTC 2007


On Jul 23, 2007, at 9:53 , Ralph Johnson wrote:

> Our main goal has been to take things OUT of the image.  The 3.9  
> group also
> took a lot of things out of the image.  But the image is still far
> from "core".  For
> example, it still has eToys, even though eToys is big and most  
> people don't use
> it.  That is because my rule was "remove anything that we can load  
> back in" and
> we haven't been able to get eToys loaded back in when we delete it.

I agree that etoys should not be part of a core image - but I can't  
let "most people don't use it" get by uncommented. Unless you do not  
count kids as "people", I assert that many more people use etoys than  
everything else in Squeak. They're just not posting to squeak-dev.

- Bert -





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