GNU smalltalk could be useful in a purely command-line oriented way, for example with the EMACS (Emacs editor) integration which was as far as I understand it, the concept back in 1990 or so, back in the days of Steve Byrne.
Also the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Smalltalk claims that the initial release was in 2003, but I suspect it was rather around 1988 or so, back in the days of Steve Byrne and the fact that some source files seem to have a message: Copyright 1988,92,94,95,99,2000,2001 GNU Smalltalk is presumably much older than 2003 as the wikipedia page incorrectly claims. It may be possible to build a package on Debian without any user interface or GTK at all and thus address the concerns: 1. No Debian maintainer - if Bill volunteers then this is solved 2. Depends on GTK - try to solve this by packaging a purely Emacs CLI oriented GNU smalltalk 3. Inactive upstream - remains potentially a problem However if a Debian package is made for the CLI portion of GNU smalltalk without GTK, then this could possibly help to overcome issue 3. Regards, David Stes ----- Op 28 okt 2023 om 11:24 schreef Holger Freyther hol...@freyther.de: > Thanks for the heads up. Do we have any volunteers to re-activate the > development of GNU Smalltalk, move towards GTK4? > >> On 27. Sep 2023, at 13:21, bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> wrote: >> >> reasons given for removal: >> * no debian maintainer >> * depends on GTK2 >> * inactive upstream >> >> For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1049451 >> >> >> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:18:51 +0800 Holger wrote: >>> Indeed. We should promote 3.2.91 to 3.3.0 and cope with VisualGST being >>> slightly >>> broken (it's based on GTK+ 2.0 anyway). Let me aim to do this before the >>> end of >>> the year. >>> >>> holger >>> >>> On 14. Nov 2021, at 09:11, bill-auger wrote: >>>> the team should consider >>>> promoting 3.2.91 to a release, before GNU smalltalk gets removed >>>> from debian, for example - arch has been packaging 3.2.91 for years >> >> >> i could perhaps maintain the debian package >> >> WDYT?
