I think it is certainly more likely that we obtain the desired results by
getting a full-time professional group akin to SqueakC to focus on developing
other aspects of the product.

And while I think that we may ultimately find it necessary to fork Squeak to
accomplish this, I am now agreed that we should allow the necessity to arise
_before_ we take that step rather than taking that step in the assumption it
will be necessary.

--- Florin X Mateoc <mateoc_florin at jpmorgan.com> wrote:
> Because it would be another group of professional developers working
> full-time
> on the core Squeak (not on Squeak applications) from a different perspective.
> 
> I think it is obvious to almost all of us that there is at least one other
> perspective than SqC's. Not everybody wants to explore user interfaces. And I
> certainly don't mean this a s a criticism, I will gladly use multimedia
> Squeak,
> and I hope to greatly benefit from Disney's efforts when teaching my son
> programming, I might even want to use it as a platform for developing some
> kinds
> of applications.
> I am simply aware that one size does not fit them all.
> All of these different groups (let's not forget SuSE ;-) could provide bases
> appropriate for different kinds of applications: the likes of
> multimedia-Squeak,
> server-Squeak, cluster-Squeak, distributed Squeak,
> computationally-intensive-Squeak, classless-Squeak, meta-Squeak, embedded
> Squeak, you get the point. Some of them could be commercial efforts, some
> research-academic. Maybe not all these niches would be filled, but this would
> certainly be one necessary step in our progress towards global domination.
> I would not see this as competition (at most friendly competition), but I am
> convinced that the materialization of any other perspective would need a
> group
> of full-time people.
> 
> Florin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> werdna at mucow.com on 03/10/2001 07:46:33 PM
> 
> Please respond to squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> 
> To:   squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> cc:   (bcc: Florin X Mateoc)
> Subject:  Re: Against wastefull forks (Re: Taking Ownership of Squeak   (WAS
> Re:
>       Python at Disney))
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Exactly my point. I'm simply saying that before I see it being likely that
> we
> >can get a company or consortium interested in forming something that
> >looks like a Red Hat for the Squeak universe, we need to resolve the
> >questions of
> >modularity and extensibility that currently surround the evolving image.
> 
> Why would it be advantageous to have a Red Hat for the squeak universe?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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