On 24 Nov 2013, at 21:18, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:

> No you should not. 30 is really usable and we are in alpha.
> Now removing the old code browser is a goal but we should not fool ourselves. 
> Once all the tools are based on Spec, breaking/changing spec will let us 
> without back door.

I don’t consider that a problem, on the contrary: eating your own dog food is 
good.

BTW, in the past (old tools, old frameworks) the problem was the same.

Yes, that means increased responsibility, so what ?

If I break Zinc, nobody can load or commit code any more - though.

> Stef
> 
>> This makes think of the tick tock model of Intel improvements.
>> 
>> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/intel-tick-tock-model-general.html
>> 
>> Looks like with 2.0 and 3.0 we are going to have two "tick"s in a row. That 
>> may be too much.
>> 
>> I am afraid even trying out 3.0 when reading about all the moving parts that 
>> are changing in all corners.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Stéphane Ducasse 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi guys
>> 
>> It would be good not to clean without a clear vision.
>> For example we cannot register an old browser to browse code via the menu of 
>> a window.
>> Now let us think two minutes to see if you can get my point:
>> 
>>         - I want to unload nautilus, rb, keymapping, athens, Ecompletion, 
>> Gofer, NativeBoost, Zinc, …..
>>         and reload them via their configuration so that we can manage Pharo 
>> with configurations.
>> 
>>         - Right now we LOST yes LOST the configurations of most of the part 
>> of the systems (I just spendt several afternoon
>>         on the one of RB in the past and now guess what) because
>>         we do not have a process to use them and we are afraid to have 10 
>> packages and 10 classes more in the system.
>>         I do not understand why we do not start to put the configuration 
>> inside the image. To me this is totally stupid
>>         not to do it.
>> 
>>         - Now without a browser this is nearly impossible to work. So we 
>> will remove the old browser
>>         but we should go slowly because else I will you do it with emacs 
>> outside the image to see if you succeed.
>> 
>> So it would be good to focus on real impacting changes.
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
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