Tweak mainstream in Squeak

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ext.cri74.org
Thu Jul 6 22:03:52 UTC 2006


Hilaire Fernandes a écrit :

> After 3.9, Squeak.org could enter in development cycle with the sole and
> unique objective to just get Tweak into Squeak.org. So roughtly, we can
> say next Squeak.org will just be Squeak.org3.9 + Tweak. No morphic
> removal or any other stuff, just to get Tweak in.
> 
> The benefice will be quadruple:
>  - Tweak developer mays get more feedback from users
>  - Squeak developers working on the browser and other Squeak IDE
> development tools could start working on Tweak version of these tools
>  - People willing to develop Squeak application may fell more
> confortable to develop their next application with Tweak (I will)
>  - Tweak developers will not have to maintain a separate Squeak version
> anymore.
> 
> It will be definitively a win-win situation.
> 
> You may say this is already possible today with your distribution of
> Tweak, but like it or not, it is not mainstream so not every one buy it
> (I am not because of the lack of visibility).
> 
> Then later step by step Morph could be removed, if not relicensable.
> Just a smooth process for the benefice of everyone.


So now I have a very direct question for you Andreas, are you interested
by this plan?

[ ] YES
[ ] NO

No answer means, NO of course.

After we know about your though about getting Tweak in Squeak.org, we
can eliminate or keep definitively the Tweak option.

Hilaire



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