Perhaps you need healing from your fear of conflict. Ask your mind to reveal to you where it was you learned this emotional pattern. (its not one I have ;-) )
keith this is much more simple than that. I'm doing pharo just to avoid the endless discussions on "I need arrow for assignment". I have nearly 20 years of brain cells now if I do not die before so I do not want to spend my time on boring stuff when I can avoid it.
Another case in point, on my to do list for squeak is "a registration mechanism for menus/flaps etc". There is absolutely NO reason why such a mechanism shouldnt be specced out and developed as a loadable module for all squeak forks to adopt.
Exact. Now the point is that we do not want to keep extra layer of compatibility for the sake of it.
Do we have to have 2 of absolutely everything?
No but we have the right to choose and consider if we like it or not. Stef