[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] A new anniversary without 3.10

karl karlramberg at gmail.com
Thu May 8 10:39:44 UTC 2008


Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
> Andreas Raab a écrit :
>> 3) Suitable welcome information inside the release. Check out 
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.6/Squeak3.6-5429-full.zip for what this can 
>> look like - in 3.6 there is a whole bunch of interesting stuff to 
>> explore which makes it interesting and engaging (and sadly I will add 
>> that 3.6 full is *smaller* than 3.10 basic). [some might consider 
>> this point finished and I wouldn't hold the release because of it but 
>> it seems very hard these days to explain to anyone who downloads 
>> Squeak what's cool about it]
>
> +1
>
> Squeak is not welcoming anymore... first time I met Squeak it was on 
> 3.4 I think, and the overall first impression was great, lots of 
> things to discover and wonder at. these days there is a dull grey 
> background with a few windows opened on technical text, details of 
> last updates... it could not be more different. 

<flamebait>
Well, it could be headless in a console window, as many wants.
</flamebait>


Karl



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