Tweak mainstream in Squeak

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at tx.technion.ac.il
Fri Jul 7 09:35:09 UTC 2006


Hi Hilaire.

Its taken us quite a while, but one of the things I like to think we've 
learned as a community is that the right way to handle big changes is to 
start early, but have multiple stages. Andreas mentioned the idea of 
making Tweak into a package loadable into squeak-dev. This implies a 
whole lot of work, in fact in the past this stage has usually been 
something like half the work required for the integration of projects, 
so I wouldn't trivialize the proposal. It is good for the community 
because it allows people to try it out more easily. I think this is a 
better proposal than committing lots of people that have never seen 
Tweak into a "Squeak 3.10 is Tweak" plan.

Part of the process of making Tweak loadable would include identifying 
its prerequisites explicitly, and giving them, also, proper review and 
usage, a stage that would probably be at best rushed in an "all at once" 
plan.

Daniel

Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>> "full" version (which really just means that it'll be loadable via 
>> SqueakMap) that's something we can talk about. Which is not quite a 
>> yes, but thus far I haven't even looked at what it means to get Tweak 
>> into 3.9 and I am willing to re-evaluate this option.
>
> No Andreas, we cannot play that YES-NO game. We don't have time to 
> waste resource on that sort of no answer position.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hilaire
>




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