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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Andreas,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> You wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> Hi Goran,<BR><BR>> Let me try to answer your
questions:</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[SNIP]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>>> 2. Is Tweak meant to be something that can work on
top of official<BR>>> Squeak, or is it only targeted at Croquet? Croquet
is currently not a<BR>>> "fork" of Squeak, but it may very well turn out
to become one. And if<BR>>> the principal developers behind Tweak are the
Croqueteers, it may<BR>>> perhaps turn into something Croquet
specific.<BR><BR>> That depends on your definition of "Squeak" and "Croquet".
Some people take<BR>> the (overly simplified) point of view that Croquet is
ultimately about 3D<BR>> environments but let me tell you: It is not. It is
ultimately about<BR>> collaboration and communcation and there are many
different ways of doing<BR>> this, some of which imply a 3D space (having the
vast advantage of providing<BR>> context for the collaboration and a natural
model for navigating large<BR>> spaces) and some of which don't. *All* of
them, however will require a<BR>> distributed, loosely coupled, secure
messaging model of replicated<BR>> computation between (mutually distrusting)
objects and peers. Which is what<BR>> we internally understand as "Croquet";
a much broader, much wider ranging<BR>> collaboration architecture that
includes many different areas of<BR>> communication, many different classes
of devices, many different user<BR>> interfaces. (and yes, we really aren't
there by a long shot but then again I<BR>> will want to have something to
work on five years from now ;-)<BR><BR>> Given that definition I can say with
utter certainty that Tweak is meant to<BR>> run on top of Croquet, with
"collaboration builtin". </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Would you please elaborate on
this ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What is it meant by <FONT
face="Times New Roman">"collaboration builtin" and why does
Tweak</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> (what exactly is Tweak, anyway)
depends on builtin collaboration ?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[SNIP]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> PhiHo.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> P.S: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> BTW, IIRC, at some stage you (on
behalf of the Croqueteers ?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> promised (?) that Croquet would
be available as a package on SM ?</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>