[squeak-dev] Meeting Report for 8/18/2010

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 05:16:48 UTC 2010


On 8/20/10, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
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> Squeak 4.2 release: ....
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> Andreas and Juan would like to find a way to leverage the work done to
> reduce Cuis for Squeak. Ideally, Squeak would become a smaller kernel,
> about the size of Cuis, and everything else would be in optional
> packages that would be unloadable. Comments, suggestions, volunteers,
> are all welcome!

Excellent. Thank you Juan and Andreas for your willingness to attempt
this. I assume it will not be easy (Markus Denker brought up the topic
about 'Stable Squeak' 10 years ago on the Pharo list). Anyhow the list
of packages which unload by now in Squeak is considerable. So if we
can continue this way for 4.2 then this is fine even if the goal is
not reached fully.

A buzz word which has been lingering around for quite some time is
'habitability',
that means if it is comfortable "living" in the coding environment.

i.e. see for example
http://www.slideshare.net/michele.lanza/of-code-and-change-beautiful-software-presentation.
The presentation as such stands out of the normal IT presentations.

It is about the city metaphor for software.
BTW did somebody create a picture of Squeak 4.1 trunk city?

So to summarize my comment: A goal for Squeak 4.2 should be to
continue to make it more "habitable". If you have access paths and
know your way around it is much more comfortable - this of course
links the issue to having 'guide posts'.

Hannes



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