Gentlemen,

I am really sad to read through this animosity. Please, let’s go back to 
technical discussions.

Tudor


> On Feb 17, 2019, at 10:46 PM, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Stephane,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 1:33 PM Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Eliot 
> 
> Contrary to you I do not wish your death. 
> 
> "Drop dead" does not mean I want you dead.  It is English for "Dégagé".
>  
> So can you respect me?
> 
> No.  I do not.  I've got to the end of my attempt to deal with your 
> destructive relationships.  I am merely one in a long line including Camillo, 
> Cl ément, and others.
> 
> One reason I can't respe3ct you is that you are not a man of your word.  You 
> sent an email 23 minutes ago that proudly declared "This is my last email 
> sent to you.".  Well done for keeping your word for 23 minutes.  What's your 
> record?
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Stef
> 
>> On 17 Feb 2019, at 22:30, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 1:00 PM ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi eliot
>> 
>> What is common in your thread is that we always look like the super 
>> emotional, or bad guys. 
>> You never ask yourselves why Esteban left the VM mailing-list. 
>> 
>> What is common is that I discuss technical matters (difficulties in using 
>> Tonel/git, architectural issues with developing the VM) and organizational 
>> issues (Estebans' unhelpful response regarding an option in Tonel) and you 
>> immediately personalize, do not bring up a single technical issue, and then 
>> make grand pronouncements like :this is the last email I'll send you".  
>> Laughable and sad.
>>  
>> 
>> And I do not see why you cannot fork Tonel to produce your own version. 
>> Git is about distributed projects. People do that all the time. You can take 
>> Tonel and hack it to death
>> without having your hacks pushed back into Pharo and this is perfectly ok 
>> for us. 
>> So Esteban has the right to say no and you have the right to hack your own 
>> version. 
>> 
>> If you want to have some support for porting Scorch/Sista to github and 
>> loading you should ask 
>> but asking it more nicely. 
>> 
>> About the simulation of the UI, if you do not talk to us we cannot pay 
>> attention.
>> I do not see why we cannot keep a package with the image level UI for the 
>> simulator. 
>> Now again you are talking about collaboration but you do not talk to us and 
>> you do not 
>> listen to us so do not expect that people are willing to spend their free 
>> time to help.
>> 
>> 
>>> I had deep concerns that the pursuit of git integration would end up 
>>> splitting the Pharo and Squeak communities and indeed this is now in 
>>> progress.  I am utterly unmotivated by the lack of cooperation, the sheer 
>>> arrogance and bullying of those that say "you will move to git/tonel or 
>>> else”, 
>> 
>> This is fun to ask Pharo not to grow up to use modern technology to manage 
>> source code under the 
>> premisses that Squeak cannot or will not. 
>> This is so funny how you state it. I will not comment more than that.
>> People around are adults and they will be able to judge by themselves. 
>> 
>>> and considering leaving VMMaker altogether. 
>> 
>> If you leave VMMaker, let us know because we will port it to Github and make 
>> it work in Pharo. 
>> Esteban did it several times in the past. At least this will have the 
>> benefit to clarify the situation. 
>> 
>> I think that this is good that you tell us that you do not want to cooperate 
>> with us. 
>> This will have at least the impact to kick our ass and pay attention to us. 
>> 
>>> The only things that are keeping me interested are Ron Teitelbaum's Terf 
>>> and me pursuing a PhD on register allocation in the context of Sista/Scorch 
>>> with Robert Hirshfeld's group at HPI.
>>> 
>>> Here's the kind of crap people like Ducasse throw at me:
>>> 
>>> "Eliot 
>>> 
>>> At the end of the day I will probably ask the two phds that should work on 
>>> language design to use truffle or pypy
>>> because let us face it we cannot work with the Pharo VM. Else we will 
>>> simply have to fork it (because we do not want to have 
>>> to jump over cuis, newspeak, squeak code constraints and I do not what) and 
>>> it will be another drama is in the pico world 
>>> of the “open” smalltalk VM. "
>>> 
>>> I am so over this crap.
>> 
>> This is not a crap. I can restate what I said. Because of responsibility of 
>> a research team and creating a future for students. You know I’m not alone, 
>> I have quite some responsibility towards PhD students
>> of my group and yes I cannot make them fail by construction (or produce 
>> unadequate results)
>> just by imposing them to use a system with far too many constraints. 
>> 
>> I will not ask them to work on the openSmalltalk vm directly because this is 
>> not their responsibilities
>> to have to jump over newspeak ifdef and others.  A job of a PhD is to be 
>> able to brainstorm and create new ideas. Look at Stefan Marr (He is working 
>> on SOM or Truffle). 
>> 
>> Now you can think that I’m an asshole, arrogant, or I do not know pick what 
>> you want.
>> ***I do not care***. I do not have Diva syndrome I have responsibilities 
>> towards people. 
>> 
>> I was discussing with some truffle experts and they told me that this is can 
>> be complex. I believe it. 
>> I would like to avoid pypy for obvious reasons. So what we will probably do 
>> for their PhD is to see if we can use a light version of opensmalltalk. I do 
>> not want to ask them to jump over many things that are totally useless for 
>> them all the time. 
>> 
>> 
>> PS: personnally I do not get why VMMaker would be the only project on earth 
>> that cannot be managed using git and Pharo. 
>> But for us the future is Git and we will continue to build on this 
>> infrastructure. 
>> 
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
>>> 
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
> 
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> 
> -- 
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot

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