On Jun 25, 2013, at 7:49 PM, kilon <[email protected]> wrote: > wait a sec , who said PPA solves my problem ? Damien have you tested it ? > > PPA did not solve my problem ! It complained about missing a X11 something > library and never allowed me to open the image. The problem got away when I > used the instructions to install those libraries. If you intended it to be > that easy then I advise you to test it on a 64 bit ubuntu without those 32 > bit compatibility libraries. > > Of course not having a 64 bit version when pretty much any programming > language out there that it takes itself seriously (intended to be used > professionally ) has one, is not exactly good first impression for pharo or > squeak. I am sorry to be so strict and I am downgrading anyone's effort but > if you guys are serious about making people taking pharo seriously , you > better realise thats its 2013 and we are still stuck with a 32 bit version > and we do a buch of none sense to get pharo running. > > Maybe the pharo efforts should be diverted towards that direction.
How many languages are solely based on real open-source efforts (without large companies putting money and resources on the table)? Because so far we got 3 years engineers from inria for Pharo. Stef
