On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen wrote:

Thanks, (I have mixed feelings about this, it's a sort of trade-off).

It's the trade-off between *having a future* or *having the past*. Is the past of Smalltalk valuable enough to be able to not invest in the Future? Lot's of people think it is, but Pharo was started to *exactly* not do that. 10 years of "doing nothing" with Squeak is for me enough for the rest of my life... the reason there was not backward-compatibility, but "wanting too much". ("not do the next step because Squeak is so imortant that we can not settle for less then perfection"). But *how* you rationalize standing still is not really important...

I hope that on the source level (particularly system classes) at least upward compatibility remains.

We deprecate important APIs and keep them for one Release. "Doing nothing is not an option". Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.