Why are you so aggressive against us?
Now if you want status quo why do you even commit in squeak?
Now I'm not sure that this is the kind of 

>>> Isn't Grease dialect dependent by essence ?
>>> If Pharo and Squeak diverge, then there will naturally be two versions
>>> of Grease...
>>> However, for these two messages, I think Pharo core should integrate
>>> them and align with Squeak. The question is more whether you need to
>>> distinguish Grease-Pharo1_1 from Grease-Pharo1_2 ...
>> 
>> Probably else this means that Pharo and any system is bound to die because
>> it does not change.
> 
> The rapid changes and no-backwards-compatibility you prefer and advocate are 
> not essential for a Smalltalk system to "stay alive". Just look at VSE, it 
> didn't change in the last 10 years, and people are still using it.
> In constrast Pharo 1.0 was considered abandonware four months after it's 
> release, which caused trouble for some users who didn't think that they'll 
> have to patch their code and rebuild their images to "get" updates/fixes.

Pharo1.0 is not abandoned at all. Since 1.0 we got more than 1000 bugs closed.
The versions are just a way to have milestones. Now there is no problem you 
think otherwise

Stef
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