[RANT] Come on people! ;)

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Wed Dec 22 04:23:45 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 21 December 2004 2:48 am, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:

> but this was not my point. my concern is: what are the stable parts of
> Squeak which I can securely build on ?

A partial answer might be: "those which people (possibly including yourself) 
keep stable".

> examples of recent questions arising about parts of Squeak I'm using
> (and relying) on:
>  BookMorphs - someone wanted to deprecate them for project (?)
>  Morphic - will it be replace by Tweak ?
>  Connectors - v1.9 don't load easily anymore and v2 is a complete
> rewrite which does not seem stable yet ?

I haven't put the changes from my work with Squeakland into the published v2 
version. However, what instabilities have you found?

>  Regexp - will the plugin version be maintained ?

It has been so far. It is being built with most or all of the VMs.

> etc. (there are others !).
>
> I'm developing a rather ambitious open source application for musical
> composition and I would like it to live a long life. it's very nice to
> see all this dynamic of experimentation taking place, but at the same
> time some strong and solid ground should be maintained to allow for the
> construction and long term maintenance of reliable applications on top
> of Squeak.

Would you like to grab a shovel and help maintain that solid ground?

-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/



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