Excellent distinction between what a developer wants for work and what
a customer wants (or what a developer wants to deploy).

On 9/20/07, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:45:32AM -0700, GeertC wrote:
> >
> >
> > Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> It's not only technical, is political too.
> > >> Many people don't like Etoys go out.
> > >> As more visible thing inside Squeak is Etoys
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I think everyone agrees that eToys should be an optional component and not
> > part of the Squeak/Smalltalk core image, if this is not the case I would be
> > really really surprised :)
>
> Etoys wouldn't be the first thing I would want to take out of a
> core image. That would be (in order):
> - MVC
> - Browsers
> - sources and changes file support
> - Etoys
> - Compiler
>
> A good core image would be Morphic and a package loader. Usable
> and customizable. I wouldn't want to distribute anything more or
> less to a non-technical user.
>
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