>
> BTW, I'm *very* happy to see that you've found a way by which you  
> feel comfortable contributing to Squeak. Your help is most welcome.
>

I am not really "comfortable" contributing to squeak...

What I am doing is pursuing my own line of development, a fork if you  
will. However I am choosing to do this in an unselfish way, by  
discussing ideas, and publishing code in such a way as to be useful to  
others.

I disagree with the trunk approach to development, because it  
professes to be a community effort to move things forward, however it  
is being pursued in the same manner as a fork, whose code is not  
published or managed in a state that others can routinely harvest.

I continue to think that the tools are unhelpful in this process.  
Cuis2.0 adds a new dimension to this, since it doesn't have any tools!  
It forces you to think simply, and more importantly to think beyond  
the constraints of Monticello, and Mantis.

This new batch of tools I am developing for publishing and maintaining  
slices of kernel functionality within Cuis, can also be used to  
routinely extract slices of functionality out of Squeak and Pharo. So  
if I find something I do like, I will be able to extract it, and track  
its development.

If successful in their minimalization efforts, Pharo, and Squeak will  
eventually become minimal kernels, having no tools of their own, and  
this way of thinking may become strangely relevant once more.

Keith
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