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.