On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Squeak is a growing community with diverse needs. We have long
> outgrown the monolithic image left to us by our founders, Dan
> Ingalls and company.



Yes, but only the enlightened community members realise this. The rest of
them still think Morphic was well designed.



> 2004: DPON, by Michael van der Gulik: A project to revive Henrik
>      Godenryd's modularity framework abandoned in Squeak 3.3
>


Er... no it isn't! Namespaces/Packages is similar, but I'm redesigning stuff
rather than reviving stuff.



> We need to build things for those who would build better images
> themselves. Having many good images to choose from makes
> everybody happier. The only issue with the situation is that
> they are not always compatible. I believe this is the core issue
> that the board and the squeak release team needs to address.



I fully agree with this.



>    By this time next year, every squeak distribution
>    (squeak.org, Pharo, eToys, cobalt) will be running a
>    standard version of the following three packages:
>    - Collections
>    - Streams
>    - Compiler
>


- Kernel ?

Gulik.

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http://gulik.pbwiki.com/
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