Morphs as composition of traits?

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Tue Feb 12 09:37:36 UTC 2008


do you mean Tweak and Morph?

On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

>
> Le dimanche 10 février 2008 à 13:04 +0100, Bert Freudenberg a écrit :
>
>>> Okay, then a next, logical question, why Tweak didn't replaced  
>>> morphs?
>>
>> My personal guess is because it is not "just" another UI. Also there
>> appears to be an astonishing lack of interest.
>
> When I started thinking about DrGeoII, I have been questioning myself
> about using Trait or Morph. After a few time, I went to Morph (but  
> with
> a suffisance abstraction level to easily switch to something else  
> later)
> because I did not fell confident about Trait to be integrated in  
> Squeak
> in a close future. I think I did the right choice, although I would  
> have
> been happy to be wrong.
>
> The interesting question is "what can we conclude about that?"
> Where was the lack of interest?
>
> In free software, people will follow you if they fell confident about
> the future of your project. Leadership is important, constant and
> recurrent feedback concerning the evolution of the project is  
> important
> to attract and to seduce newcomers. Seaside has been doing that with a
> lot of successes, so people fell confident about using it, then to
> contribute.
>
> Hilaire
>



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