[squeak-dev] Winds of change

Giuseppe Luigi Punzi glpunzi at lordzealon.com
Fri Feb 6 13:54:17 UTC 2009


We have elections soon.

I'ts time to think about the project. What we search? What new 
developers search?

I think, probably, Squeak, needs a refactoring on the ideas behind. The 
people thath wants etoys, use etoys image. Croquet uses his own image. 
Now, at the moment (2009), I'm 90% sure, the people thath go to 
squeak.org, and get the latest Squeak, now, are developers searching a 
good smalltalk (something similar to VW but opensource I means) to use 
in their projects, not the use of Squeak as multimedia, or something 
similar. I know this for all spanish people ask me about Squeak, or 
developers "going out the list" searching Pharo, an approach to the 
things I say.

I like the idea about a console squeak (like GST) with the objects 
living in memory, but not dependent of the "World", launching the actual 
Squeak World as an object (I don't know if is the actual behaviour, I 
only dream) if you want, or launching something like VW (or Dolphin) 
working over TK or GTK or WxWidgets or technologys like XUL 
instead.....I like the idea of an UI Painter....I like the idea of all 
Squeak tools running over web too..well, this idea don't like it very 
much :)..but I don't have the skills for all of this, for this I offer 
the ideas. But most important, is the community has vote for this 
things. The community needs to stay informed about the movements. I 
think, this, is the right direction.

I don't know what you all think, but IMHO, it's the moment to get a new 
Squeak 4 from zero, trying to preserve the core classes, with new ideas 
and ambitions.

I don't like very much the idea about all list hating me, but, after 
this mail, I know you hate me :P

P.D.: Yes, probably, I'm crazy too.



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