Hi!

"Jason Johnson" <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> >If people were less attached to their tools,
> > then Universes would have been built *on top of* SM so that it actually
> > increases the value of SM as a global repository of "all things squeak"
> > instead of having isolated, inaccessible repositories that decrease the
> > value of SM.
> 
> Good point, I haven't heard/read why it was chosen to be a separate
> thing, but I would guess it was the usual:  it seemed easier to make
> something from scratch then add functionality to an existing system.

You would have to ask Lex. I have always argued for merging them and as
I hinted in some post - I and Brian proposed it too at one point. I can
not see either why we couldn't have done Universes "on top of" SM, but I
am partial in all this.

regards, Göran