I think that this is really important to
be able to load sophie cool extensions or new code (rome...) into  
3.9/3.10

This was an important goal of the roadmap I proposed.

Stef
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>> 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).
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>> 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?
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> This was related to Sophie, and everything Sophie-related is open  
> source and publicly available. I think this one would be HostWindow- 
> Rome at
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> 	http://source.impara.de/HostWindows.html
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