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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