Squeak for everyday use??

Jim Benson jb at speed.net
Tue Mar 26 21:37:33 UTC 2002


Mayuresh ,

What's with the stuck with morphic talk?

Of course you're not stuck with morphic. Just write your own code using
whatever you want to use. You can always just write some assembler if you
want to.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayuresh Kathe" <mayuresh at vsnl.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Squeak for everyday use??


> Hi,
>
> If you have observed, most of them are Morphic oriented stuff.
> Can't there be something for a lightweight MVC stuff?
>
> > From: Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>
> >
> >> 2. EMails (lots of them, filtering, PGP would be great ;)
> >> [handling around 300 mails a day]
> > Celeste is pretty good but not very pretty. That could be fixed.
>
> Stuck up with Morphic :(
>
> >> 3. Telnet (thats one of the most important things in my life :)
> >> [is there SSH available too??] <grin>
> > I think telnet is there but ssh is not. I could be wrong. I don't think
there
> > is currently any support for secure socket stuff.
>
> Again, I think stuck up with Morphic :(
> Could you show me how to use it?
>
>
> >> 5. Journal keeping (pure text, almost 8 years of data, need some
> >> encryption technique, certainly wouldn't want my to-be wife to
> >> read _some_ of those entries ;)
> > There's a file system; you could store files in a suitable directory
> > structure. You could use a locally hosted swiki. Many good options here.
>
> I could use any of the options above, but the most important features are:
> Search (full text, dates, keywords)
> Encryption (there is the to-be wife factor to be considered ;)
>
> >> 6. A bit of music (mostly MP3)
> > See MPegPlayer.
>
> How do I use that?
> Hope thats not Morphic
>
> >> 7. A bit of drawing (mostly rough concept drawings done while on
> >> the move)
> > There are options ranging from using or extendingthe painter for morphs
to
> > HotDraw to Ned's connectors to doing a new one.
>
> Hmnn...
>
> >> 8. PIM (Schedules, AddressBook)
> > See class PDA
>
> I think even that is stuck up with Morphic...
>
> ~Mayuresh
>
>
>
>




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