Adding one more voice to the choir...

My experiences with the SqC guys is that they manage to
achieve levels of productivity that make me green with envy.
OTOH, every SqC person I have had contact with has been
cooperative, communicative, helpful, friendly, trustworthy...
I guess that is why the system they have given birth to is
based upon communicating, cooperating entities... reflecting the
way in which the SqC team itself works.

When you look at the number of people and the quantity of *REALLY*
*INTERESTING* code that they have given to us to use and play with
it is amazing that they have time left over to even read email
much less be as responsive as they are.

As for Morphic widgets... sounds like a great plan Jesse.
Maybe you could post a wish list of widgets that you notice
are missing. Perhaps we could get a Swiki page going to track
widgets as a new project.

John "Would you look at the mouth on that gift horse?" Sarkela

> From: Jesse Schell <Jesse.Schell at disney.com>
> Reply-To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:19:40 -0800 (PST)
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: The Mysterious Secret Society "Squeak Central" and Morphic Widgets
> Resent-From: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Resent-Date: 11 Feb 2000 17:18:31 -0000
> 
> 
> Daniel-
> 
> I don't work at Squeak Central, per se, but right next door at the
> Disney VR Studio, where we are trying to integrate squeak with our
> real-time 3D engine (www.panda3d.org) for game development. We are
> also working to try to give Morphic some robust REAL widgets,
> bulletproof and reliable. I can guarantee that no such work is going
> on a Squeak Central right now, I walked over and checked. :-)
> 
> I would love to join forces with you to put some decent widgets in
> Squeak... As far as I am concerned this is Squeak's greatest
> weakness...  Please drop me a line.
> 
> Daniel Allan Joyce writes:
>> I love SmallTalk.
>> 
>> I love Squeak.
>> 
>> But there is no mailing on the list dealing with the progress of Squeak
>> Central projects, which seems to be hush-hush... :/
>> 
>> Makes it difficult for me to know if I'm going into an area that
>> someone else is working on, or wondering if something I want to do will
>> be broke by a unknown, not discussed Squeak Central project.
>> 
>> I want to give Morphic some robust REAL widgets, bulletproof and
>> reliable. I found myself tearing out a lot of cruft.
>> 
>> But...
>> Is someone of the SC group working on this?
>> 
>> What is the current EXACT status of Balloon 2D, and would this affect
>> my implementation of Squeak Widgets?
>> 
>> Rumbles have appeared that "Morphic may not be the way to go, we're
>> working on something better". Yes? And?
>> 
>> At least with linux, developers of add-ons can keep track of what the
>> core team of developers is doing, and plan their coding accordingly,
>> writing patches and updating their drivers as needed as the central code
>> undergoes changes.
>> 
>> Here? No clue, except for some musty OLD pages on the Squeak wiki.
>> Nothing, I have no clue if what I do will be broken in a year by a
>> suprise SC code release. I don't mind it being broken, but the work
>> could be done over time if I was kept abreast of SC design plans....
>> 
>> Daniel Joyce
>