<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Doug, Andreas, Stephane,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks for the explanation. I certainly agree that the string refactoring is an important thing to do, and sooner is better. I have yet to see an existing codebase get migrated from 8 bit characters to wide characters that didn't invovle some (or a lot of) pain. Squeak seems to be making the transition "relatively" smoothly.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I also agree that fewer releases less often is probably appropriate. What I'm used to seeing is "the date is set, so we'll just pull features and keep the date if things aren't ready", which often leads to the next release starting before the current version is released, multiple parallel streams, merging hell, etc. ...and then an important customer need some feature we don't have, so we delay everything and squeeze it in to get the sale.... (I am speaking hypothetically here, of course. I don't mean to imply that this actually occurs in any real software development organization ;-) ) I would hate to see Squeak get sucked into that vortex, and it seems that you are all aware of the dangers.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Thanks.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> -Dean</font>