Making Squeak more accessible and used - reversing thetrend

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 5 06:25:58 UTC 2007


>From: "Bill Schwab" <BSchwab at anest.ufl.edu>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Making Squeak more accessible and used - reversing thetrend
>Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:54:38 -0500
>
>JJ,
>
>We have a small process-synchronization problem: we're writing emails at
>the same time :)  Your recent message would likely alter my recent
>message.  Please consider that as you read, if only retroactively.

Hehe, that happens sometimes.

>My experience is that users will gladly tolerate some unfamiliar
>appearance (aka deviation from platform standards) as long as software
>does what they want, quickly, intuitively, and robustly.  One more pass
>on the broken record: they care about feel far more than they care about
>look.
>
>We seem to want many of the same things for and from Squeak.  I would
>simply urge you to prioritize some of the other items I have mentioned
>(ANSI/underscore, end of stream errors, morphic feel) over native look
>and packaging.  Between native look and packaging, look is probably the
>more important topic for the community.  The packaging side is something
>that a single developer can do, and your recent message referencing RPM
>etc. shows that you already have ideas on how to do it.  The result
>would easily be distributed as one or more items on SM.

Well, is there any place where we have a list of priorities of the 
community?  If so, maybe we should give it a look and see if it still 
reflects reality and what things we can knock off the list.

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