On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Matthew Fulmer tapplek@gmail.com wrote:
Squeak is a growing community with diverse needs. We have long outgrown the monolithic image left to us by our founders, Dan Ingalls and company.
Yes, but only the enlightened community members realise this. The rest of them still think Morphic was well designed.
2004: DPON, by Michael van der Gulik: A project to revive Henrik Godenryd's modularity framework abandoned in Squeak 3.3
Er... no it isn't! Namespaces/Packages is similar, but I'm redesigning stuff rather than reviving stuff.
We need to build things for those who would build better images themselves. Having many good images to choose from makes everybody happier. The only issue with the situation is that they are not always compatible. I believe this is the core issue that the board and the squeak release team needs to address.
I fully agree with this.
By this time next year, every squeak distribution (squeak.org, Pharo, eToys, cobalt) will be running a standard version of the following three packages:
- Collections
- Streams
- Compiler
- Kernel ?
Gulik.