On Tue 28 Apr, David Stes wrote:
For example, with the question on QuickTime-support that we had a while ago on this list, of making a "link" between Squeak and QuickTime, it was clear that the Squeak people feel, that having such external modules, is a bit against their philosophy of being able to access everything, from top to bottom, as Smalltalk code. (well, there was also a concern of portability, but that concern wouldn't apply in the ST<->OBJC case).
I'm not sure how you got this impression David, but it certainly isn't one I got; several of us that look after the assorted ports have created prototypes of calls from Sq to outside modules precisely because it seems such an obvious idea .. I _think_ that what Dan wrote expressed an opinion that there is no point in adding special QuickTime primitives to Sq since it is not portable and not a core requirement for the system. I believe he further suggested exactly the genera lized external calling capability that I refer to above.
tim
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