On Jul 9, 2007, at 13:01 , Derek O'Connell wrote:

> This raises a more general question of how to go about extending
> Squeak, use external libraries or attempt to reproduce functionality
> within Squeak. I often see-saw between the two, usually based on
> performance-vs-flexibility (if I conveniently ignore questions
> regarding ability/time to implement, lol). Personally I think external
> libs should be used where they have reached a level of maturity... and
> are free... and are available for at least the big three OS's. Plus
> there are areas in Squeak that simply have not and maybe cannot keep
> up with the excellent effort put into some external libs (I'm thinking
> video, flash, etc, but I'm sure there are other areas).
>
> OTOH, the more ex-libs are used the more Squeak becomes a
> scripting-like tool (not a big bad thing IMHO) and the further it gets
> from being the ideal computing environment with access to every level
> (VM not withstanding). I drool at the idea of the latter but at the
> end of the day I would choose practicality over ideals. I also detest
> the idea of wasted effort, by anyone, going into "recreating the
> wheel". For instance, I'm considering creating a media-centre type
> image and my conclusion is it would be madness not to utilise ex-libs.
>
> Bert, do you know if the Impara work is (or will be) publicly  
> available?

This was related to Sophie, and everything Sophie-related is open  
source and publicly available. I think this one would be HostWindow- 
Rome at

	http://source.impara.de/HostWindows.html

- Bert -