SqueakGTK or SqueakWX mainstream in Squeak.org

Dan Shafer dan at shafermedia.com
Fri Jul 7 19:33:32 UTC 2006


To the extent that this move addresses the deliverability issue, I'd  
sign up to work on it for sure.

Dan
On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Cees De Groot wrote:

> On 7/7/06, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire at ext.cri74.org> wrote:
>> (Still with the idea to get a core Squeak.org version, free software
>> community compatible)
>>
>
> Why one UI? Why one *anything*?
>
> The only move I am going to lift a finger on is a move that brings us
> closer to the idea of Squeak as a platform. Which probably means
> burning diskpacks, starting with Spoon or something similarly small,
> and then pretending that we're Linux:
> - a small kernel (really small, not "linux small" ;-));
> - lots and lots of packages under different licenses;
> - people building distro's. A web dev distro, a wxUI distro, ...
>
> Squeak must become an eco system. Think Java, Linux. A reasonably
> small amount of common code that lays the groundwork, and let the
> community sort it out from there. If you want a new kind of Squeak,
> just assemble it. If you want to share it, publish it. If it becomes
> popular and the de facto main distribution, congrats.
>
> Oh, and we have everything in place. As in Spoon works, we have a
> package system (sort of. several even :-)), lots of packages, and so
> on.
>
> We'd just need to declare it the next thing.
>




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