Ah OK. I have never used a smalltalk IDE so for me I don't see the benefit for it (yet). In regards to the bug, I'll see if I can report it to Debian somehow.
Jul 10, 2021 8:53:28 PM bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community>: > gst-browser is the gnu-smalltalk "IDE" - it offers a very > similar experience to the graphical smalltalks - it would be a > good idea to familiarize yourself with it, if you ever plan to > use other smalltalk dialects; but unlike other smalltalk > dialects, it is only a convenience (strictly optional) > > AFAIK, gst-browser was intended primarily as a stepping-stone, to > ease the transition, for the benefit of people who are already > familiar with one of the graphical smalltalk dialects - however, > the primary characteristic feature of gnu-smalltalk, is to escape > from the isolated squeaky "world", allowing the use of standard > development tools and workflows (your preferred text editor, > your preferred VCS, editing/debugging over SSH, etc) > > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 10:56:46 -0400 Joseph wrote: >> I can't get gst-browser to launch due to the bug I've seen mentioned already >> in the mailing list. > > FWIW, it is not obvious that the "bug" you referred to is > actually a bug that could be fixed upstream - the experiments > show that it works on some distros and not others; which > suggests that the bug is in those specific broken distro > packages, not the upstream code-base > > that means you have two simple options (at least) > > 1. report the bug to your distro and ask them to fix it > 2. use another distro > > you could begin with #2; but it is better for everyone if the > bug gets reported to the people who could fix it - if the distro > packager does not respond, or can not fix the bug, then that > gives all the more merit to option #2
