An 3.9 image for developers

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 13:08:32 UTC 2006


On 14 sept. 06, at 14:21, Damien Cassou wrote:

> stephane ducasse a écrit :
>> when selecting the packages here is the most important points:
>>     - avoid gadgets (people can load them after, so I would not  
>> add UI modification so that people are sure that this is 3.9)
>
>
> I agree but people have to tell me what is gadget and what is not.  
> I can't decide for everybody.

So develop your vision. Be the master of the Squeak-Dev image.
We do not want everything, we want the best and the useful :)
Put your criteria in place and people should be convincing you to get  
their stuff in


for me
	Shout
	RB (with services integration)
	ecompletion
	Smacc
	are absolutely necessary ;)


	After dynamic protocol
	I did not try BrowserBooster yet


>>     - avoid packages that would slow down the interface
>
>
> How do you know that ?

Try them. So the look enh are out.
>
>
>>     - minimize method overrides
>
>
> This would require me to look at every packages. A better solution  
> is to release a new squeak-dev image often and correct bugs that  
> are found.

hehehe you are learning the job of a harvester :)
but minimizing the overrides is important.



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