The future of Morphic (Was Re: Shrinking sucks!)

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Wed Feb 9 07:31:47 UTC 2005


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:08:48 +0100, Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:
>> I'd welcome such a "ruthless" development cycle for end-user Squeak,  
>> but it might mean that for boring old-style development we'de better  
>> stick with something more controllable :)
>
> Well ... if you trust this community to fix Morphic, which is a total  
> mess compared to Tweak, why wouldn't you trust it to be able to fix /  
> change / do whatever is necessary for your own needs if such an incident  
> would happen?
>
First, I'd say "something more controllable", which doesn't necessarily  
mean Morphic. I was just pointing out *a* danger with Tweak, something I  
understood from when Andreas visited IRC and I think everyone should be  
aware of.

The choice is then to have a tiny Morphic and keep it there, or to have  
discussions every X months about forking off Tweak because main Tweak  
rockets off into a direction the rest of the community can't keep up with.

Or go ahead with this truly excellent idea of UIManager and an Abstract  
Widgets Toolkit and just give up caring whatever powers OmniBrowser.  
Boring, but saves a lot of bandwidth on the list :P



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