Hi,

Ok - FFI support is removed. But how to get it back? I havent found
the Monticello packages on the usual places (PackageLoader/SqueakMap, 
SqueakSource.com)

I was lucky to see the mcz still be available from 
http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/ but it was not loadable 
in the first place.

If one wants to use SQLite, ODBC, ExternalWebBrowser, ... FFI is required. 

Any newbee loading one of these packages using PackageLoader will run into 
trouble, declare Squeak as useless and will soon delete Squeak from it's harddisk! 
This will definitely not help the community to grow - instead we may end
up with only a few people (most of them burned out like Marcus) :(

I feel a little bit sad that there is no reliable process behind all that - 
next time we may decide to remove Morphic in the last minute. 

There may be reasons for Andreas to get FFI removed (IMHO I agree that FFI
should not be a part of the base image) but why speak up so late?  

Dont know how usefull the initial "Release Plan for 3.9" really was ...
(see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5645)

However - I'm happy that a new version is out. :)
Thanks for all the hard work! 

bye
Torsten

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