Simon Guest wrote:
Am I unusual in wanting to do this? Is there a better thing to do?
No you're not. I'd like to do the same. Unfortunately the Etoys image is so far behind at this point that it has become a serious hindrance for me. No Monticello, Shout, ToolBuilder, Closures etc. You name it. OTOH, Etoys has all the media activities that are broken in Squeak.
Here is a VHLQ (very high-level question): How do people feel about bringing Squeak.org and Etoys together again? Since the Etoys-haters left, there is both room as well as a need for a driving application. A merger with Etoys would give Squeak back its primary purpose for existence, would allow the Etoys community to benefit from improvements made at Squeak.org and allow of us to focus our efforts in trying to provide a unified artifact for personal dynamic media. We have an open development process that I think could work for such a project so that at the end of the day the Squeakland release may come with a special "skin" for the UI but where the basic system is a Squeak.org image right out of the box.
I'm not sure if we have the resources to do this quickly but I'd like at least to raise the question to see how people feel about it. Is this even option?
Cheers, - Andreas