Hi Göran...

   "...forever is a long time..."

This sounds good *BUT* SM2 is not yet available. We're talking about SM2
for some time but it's not released yet.

On the other side: Who is/are in charge of the full image/s?

Cheers,

Diego

> Diego Gomez Deck <DiegoGomezDeck at ConsultAr.com> wrote:
> [SNIP]
>> > Where will the translations end up? Will they be added to the image
>> > or  will
>> > people (who so not now english!) need to start the PackageLoader and
>> >  load
>> > the translation? This is not an option.
>>
>> The full image, imho, has to be full multi-language.
>
> Well, IMHO languages should be packages - as EVERYTHING eventually will
> be.
> Then sure, we can have a multiLangSuperFull image distro if that is
> interesting, but we can also very easily do the following:
>
> 1. Add a very prominent menu/button that simply selects language and
> then downloads/installs it using SM2. Or even detects the preferred
> language from the OS on startup and downloads/installs it.
>
> 2. And also note that the above *doesn't need a net connection* because
> SM2 has a proper client cache - we can include the cache (in selected
> parts or even full) in the zip-file you download when you download
> Squeak.
>
> This is btw the distributed format that I am aiming at - a small kernel
> image (that is getting smaller and smaller when we manage to detangle
> more and more) + the "sm" directory tree which includes a cache.
>
> Exactly what you want to have in the cache is of course completely up
> to debate. :)
>
> regards, Göran