It is not sarcasm or a race. I was just pointing out the (obvious) fact that there is a huge difference in scale. (And even then, Pharo, being the most successful Smalltalk, is pretty small).
And I was saying so in the context of the questions 'What should we promote ?' or 'Was it actually good or a success to have that mentioned in InfoWorld ?'. Now I am going back to work on Pharo. > On 15 Jan 2015, at 16:59, Sebastian Sastre <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Well.. I’ve cared to talk with James before making this kind of assumptions > or listening that sarcasm. > > Those 20 commits are in the stable repo, not dev so the commit race doesn’t > say much. > > It’s not ready to big time promotion but turns out Redline Smalltalk > development is doing fine in moving towards 1.0 and its plans of having one > release per year. > > > >> On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes, it is very alive: 20 commits in year or so. >> >> Pharo 4 has about 1700 in about the same time >> (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core). And that is just one silly, >> inaccurate metric. >> >> My point is, there are a couple of great Smalltalk implementations that >> contain an incredible number of man-years of effort in their images (the >> best being Pharo of course, but I am biased ;-), we can only achieve a high >> quality platform by working together. The number of different competences >> needed to successfully build a *COMPLETE* software platform can *NEVER* be >> achieved by 'a couple of guys' let alone one individual. >> >> Now, it is not that they can not do so, of course they can, we need wild and >> crazy ideas and research, but it is just wrong to see such experiments as >> what should be promoted now. >> >> IMHO, of course. >> >>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 15:19, horrido <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Actually, Redline is quite alive. There's a brand new repo: >>> https://github.com/jamesladd/stc <https://github.com/jamesladd/stc> >>> >>> James just hasn't gotten around to normalizing all the links at his website. >>> >>> >>> Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >>>> A blank. >>>> >>>> Nothing happened to this project in more than a year >>>> >>>> https://github.com/redline-smalltalk/redline-smalltalk/commits/master >>>> >>>> It is mostly vapourware and has no users. >>>> >>>> People following the links on the article will soon find out. >>>> >>>> Just sad. >>>> >>>>> On 14 Jan 2015, at 23:40, horrido < >>> >>>> horrido.hobbies@ >>> >>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2867543/java/redline-smalltalk-bridging-smalltalk-jvm-worlds.html >>>>> <http://www.infoworld.com/article/2867543/java/redline-smalltalk-bridging-smalltalk-jvm-worlds.html> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Note the last paragraph. Our campaign will be noticed! >>>>> >>>>> This is exactly what I was after when I started the SRP. Spread the word >>>>> about the campaign as far and wide as I could. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> View this message in context: >>>>> http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612.html >>>>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >>>>> Nabble.com. >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612p4799699.html >>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > >
