Proposal for a Squeak migration meeting

Pavel Krivanek squeak1 at continentalbrno.cz
Mon Jun 26 10:08:31 UTC 2006


> As Craig said, we (SqF Board) are going to discuss various approaches
> with Dan Ravicher July 5th. We'll have a more informed idea of what is
> possible after that conversation, I hope. However, at the moment I
> think there are two realistic approaches:
> - Take Squeak 1.1 and declare that the new main line of development;
> - Do a license check on the Spoon code and declare that the new main
> line of development.
> In both cases, we'd start with a "deficient" Squeak and work upwards.
> The third option, sort out the mess that's 3.9 (licensing-wise), seems
> to be not very viable. It's a lot of work to start with, and the
> outcomes are unsure.

You don't expect that's possible to take bootstrapped 3.9 kernel image
(http://www.squeaksource.com/KernelImage.html) and make it clean from
the licensing perspective?  I don't think that it's more complicated
than Spoon checking.

-- Pavel



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