Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Jul 4 08:20:19 UTC 2006


I think that you raise an important question.
Does it make sense that Sophie is based on Tweak in that case?
Should people fork from Tweak (even before starting using it :)).

Stef

> However, IIRC Andreas has stated at at least one occasion in
> unequivocally clear words that Tweak is primarily for his own projects
> (Croquet, Etoys(?)). In other words, he is not going to commit to
> spend time to work at Tweak for the community (knowing him, he might
> still do it, but we can't count on it ;-)).
>
> Which means that for the Squeak community at large, Tweak is a
> take-it-or-leave-it deal. People can send patches and/or enhancements
> to Andreas, but he is likely to decide on accepting them only in the
> context of his work, and not primarily to do the community a favor.
>
> (note: I'm totally fine with Andreas' position here. It is his code
> after all, he can do with it as he pleases. Just that people don't
> misunderstand why I bring up this issue)
>




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