Stef's Squeak Grand Vision
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jul 8 08:50:43 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?
I do not know. VM are not my areas.
The problem with the VM is that some new people should invest there
to avoid some bottlenecks in the future. :)
>> - 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)
OK for me.
>>
>> 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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