On 22 May 2013 15:25, stephane ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >>> There IS a reason pharo forked from squeak... >> >> I'm not pursuing this thread: it's my understanding that the fork was >> largely political, and personal, and that's as far as I'm going to >> talk about it. > > Reducing Pharo to a personal decision is ridiculous but you can believe it > if you want. Then I do not know what is politic. > Pharo exists to create a sustainable eco system where companies > can make money and wealth/knowledge/innovation can expand. > We started Pharo because we could not do it with Squeak. No more no less.
I believe the things I do regarding the fork because of personal conversations with people close to the decision. > If you ask me, we should have started to do Pharo way before because we all > lost > energy for nothing. If I should redo it I would. That may be so. Squeak in 2013 is not the same community as Squeak in 2007/2008 (and not just because most of the community moved to Pharo). frank
