On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:06:29AM -0800, Avi Bryant wrote:
> 
> A suggestion that I think I've made in the past is that we explicitly  
> acknowledge the forking by not privileging any of the forks with the  
> name "Squeak" or the front page of squeak.org.  Instead, squeak.org  
> could direct people to the fork that is most likely to be useful to  
> them, whether that's Squeakland, Tweak, Croquet, Spoon, SqueakLight,  
> Traits (what we're now calling 3.9a), Seaside (not really a fork yet  
> but could be), or something else.  Work to make the basic  
> infrastructure of websites, bug trackers, FTP servers, SqueakMap,  
> SqueakSource and so on "fork aware" and equally available to any fork  
> that has a following.  And if you're worried about the negative  
> connotations of "fork", call them "distributions" instead...

Just as a reminder, Lex Spoon's Universes seems to be a nice way to
package Squeak distibutions/forks. It provides some useful mechanisms
for defining and packaging, and helps answer the question "what is
a Squeak distribution?"

Dave