> I'm quite sure that if there would be a TeaTime enabled tweak based 
> system (using that new VM stuff), I would use it for all my work.
> As would most other people, I guess. For me, Squeak was and is about 
> moving forward. Not implementing the past.
>
> So at that point, there would just be no "next release" of Squeak in 
> the sense of today's Squeak, as everybody would be contributing to the 
> new system.
> (Of course, this is just playing with words: For me, "Squeak" never 
> meant the hack based on St80 we have now, but a vision for a new 
> system of the
> future).
>
> One thing (and that is really important): It would be good to have 
> some idea of how and when this transitions will happen. Will it be a 
> hard switch
> or a gradual transition? If we all know that we will use "the new 
> thing" it would be nice to be able to put work into that at some point 
>  instead of
> something that later does not get used. (e.g. the harvesting I do is 
> mostly completly not relevant for me personally. If I would put as 
> much work into
> another release as I did in 3.7 and 3.8, and later nobody uses it, 
> that would not be fun. Of course, just stopping "because there will be 
> something
> better in the future" is not the right thing, either. Not doing the 
> trivial improvement because a better one might come in the future is a 
> great way
> of making sure that nothing happens at all.

100% in sync with me.

Stef