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Here's a question that came up at the planning meeting this morning, and it's one that should properly be addressed to the community. There are a number of items in the "preview" (beta) directory of the VisualWorks distribution. The way we currently run releases, we do the following:

• Major release in the late fall/early winter of the year
• Minor release in the late spring/early summer of the year

In a minor release, we try to address things that skipped the major release, bugs, and preview items. looking at the preview items, here's the list:

• 64-bit engines
• Database\TIGER (connect package for the Cincom database)
• Database\Supra (connect package for the Cincom database)
• Glorp
• StoreForGlorp
• Modtracking/ModificationManagement (a framework for dealing with tracking object changes/immutability for things like database operations, particularly OODBs)
• Mqinterface
• Opentalk/iiop (CORBA related)
• Opentalk/Opentalk-Debugger
• Opentalk/Opentalk-Profiler
• Opentalk/Opentalk-SOAP
• Packaging/base.im (part of the deployment simplification process)
• IEEEMath
• MenuUICompatibility
• Pollock
• SmalltalkDoc (new documentation framework, to be integrated with the browsing tools)
• Unicode (display of arbitrary character sets w/o regard to the current locale)
• XSchema

The question I have here is - what do you think? If it was your call, which ones would you be most interested in seeing promoted out to a fully supported set?