On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Benoit St-Jean wrote:

> 1) readily available, no
?

Again what is the list of package not loading that are important for you.


> 2) I was not necessarily thinking about the UI.  For instance, a lot of stuff 
> still references Preferences and break on load.

So what is the point?
We should have a Preferences packages with the squeak preferences?
Sure it was in Deprecated 1.2. Then?
Now if you do one publish it.

> 3) Yeah, I do have a few DOS application that I do care about because, so 
> far, after all those years, they're the best at doing what they were designed 
> for an no Java (or anything else) apps have replaced them in terms of 
> performance and features.  They're mostly tools but they work great and I 
> haven't found any decent replacement for them.  Beside, this is a weak 
> argument Stephane!  Do you still need that crappy 50 years old language 
> called COBOL ?  I guess so, in some cases!

No it is not. Look at Mac.


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