On 11/1/07, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
I figured it was a typo ;-) So the basic difference between SM and Universes is that the latter uses a community policy (you "ought" not to put bad things there) right?
Yep.
This sounds reasonable but can we then please drop the silly nonsense about "guaranteed to work together"?
Fine with me. Anything in software "guaranteed" sounds like propaganda anyway. :)
If you need a catchy marketing phrase, how about "community tested"? (in the best of all worlds this is just what it would be)
Also, this only seems to emphasize the complementary nature of Universes and SM. If, say, Universes would use SM as their "backend-storage" you could have your cake and eat it too: Sets of community-tested packages that are available for one-click install, and "all code ever written for Squeak" available on SM for historical or porting purposes.
With the newer versions of Universes it can do this in fact. SM is one of the sources for a package.
I'm personally looking forward to what Göran has to propose with SM3.