Stef's Squeak Grand Vision

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ext.cri74.org
Sat Jul 8 08:53:11 UTC 2006


At least!

stéphane ducasse a écrit :
> Hi Hilaire
> 
> Here is my **personal** vision for the future:
> 
> Making Squeak a software platform (for web dev, education dev, 
> dreaming....)
> 
>     - Small kernel (We should help Spoon)
>     - Good package (may be MC2)
>     - Good library (Stream, file, network)
>     - Good set of tools
>         - OB, Refactoring Engine, coverage browser, new code browser,
> shout,
>         - ecompletion, new compiler,
>     - Connection with the outer world (GTK, vwxWidgets)

Which mean the mainstream VM will be patched so it is immediately
workable with such widgets, right?

>     - removing broken stuff
>     - Cleaning internal (Set, Dictionary....)
> 
> Possibly with clear OS license.

Do you think we can afford to get this as only an option?
Should we not make clear in our roadmap we want to move *toward* a clean
 OS license? (hudge difference impact)


> 
> Doing that with good software engineering practices
>     - Tests
>     - Test Server
>     - Building scripts
> 
> I will slowly work on that. Note that this is still the vision behind  3.9.
> If you are interested I can point to work to be done to arrive to  that
> point.

Let's take a few more time to discuss on that.


Hilaire



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