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

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Feb 9 18:47:34 UTC 2005


Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't know why people think we have to choose one GUI.  In the Linux
world, Gnome and KDE people live happily side by side and can even share
boxes.  Not to mention, there are plenty of old schoolers who hate all
this fuzzy Gnome and KDE stuff and like to use plain old XWindows --
just like people around here who like to program GUI's with the
traditional ST-80 framework in Squeak.  They even give the same reasons,
e.g. "it's fast!!"

This whole discussion is a blind tempest in a teapot.  Most of the
participants don't even seem to know much of anything about Tweak, and
everyone seems very excited about what the "official" GUI will be.  This
is an open source project with members who have very different
interests.  Inevitably, *every* framework is going to maintain a
following.  I hope that all the different groups can continue to work
together, like in Debian, and that we do not rush to have a million
forks, like the Scheme community.  I don't see any real barriers to us
doing so.

-Lex



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