[Squeakfoundation]Brainstormin'

[Withers, Robert]

Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:
> Withers, Robert wrote:
> 
> >
> >To really make this work, a decision about the fundamental 
> core of the Squeak should be made and backed up with test 
> cases.  This core has been identified as including object, 
> blocks, collections, magnitude, dependencies, multicast 
> events, metaprotocol and classes, and probably a few others.
> >
> Is there any official decision on this?

I don't think so, but prior excavations seem to settle on this as the
minimal functional set  (PocketSmalltalk, etc)

> I guess Exceptions and Streams will have to be included too.

yep, good ones.

> It would be nice to leave the Compiler out as a module, together with 
> development tools.

Yes, although how one could pull in the compiler later is an interesting
exercise.  Image segments would work.

Rob