On 28 juil. 06, at 08:43, Pavel Krivanek wrote:

>> Are there any plans to use your small image as the official base
>> image? Using a small base image then importing externally supported
>> packages should make image maintenence much easier as there will be
>> less code. Is this a good time to burn bridges to move forward to
>> a more modular future?
>
> Good question. Version 3.9 is in the final stage and I think that
> Stef, Marcus, Cees, Craig, Bert, Tim and Yoshiki should set the plan
> for 3.10 - goals and priorities.

I'm not that this is the role of the foundation.

>
> Stef declared that he wants to burn bridges in this version.

At least I do not want to work on 3.10 for something that have such  
too much strings
attached. However this is really important to make sure that people  
can work with it.
So I would start to discarding a lot more of rotten code.

> We want to have Squeak free and modular and there are three possible
> starting points.  The free version One, Craig's Spoon and the image of
> mine.
>
> I wanted to show that my way is the right one. We have some GUI-less
> image with SUnit tests, we are able to run Seaside applications and we
> are able to load the rest of current Squeak sources and run Morphic.

Excellent start.

> Unfortunately there's almost nobody who can maintain the next release.

Exact!

> And if we will create the basic kernel imege, there will be no human
> resources to unify it as the base for the current Squeak forks.

This is why I always propose you that we join effort.
And that we push step by step part of what you did into the next  
version.