Damien, Stefan,
thanks for the comments - good points. I have tried to improve the text, see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/GettingStartedAbout It now has a list of packages that Pharo includes and another list of things that are not included. Newcomers can ignore these. Cheers Matthias On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Stefan Schmiedl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:00:14 +0100 > "Damien Cassou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Matthias Berth >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > * great tools, e.g. OmniBrowser with refactoring support >> > * polished user interface with TrueType fonts and Polymorph widgets >> >> Don't give the tool names. Newcomers don't care. > > ... if they don't know the names from somewhere else. And newcomers > are not the only ones reading "about" docs. How about > > "... with scalable fonts (TrueType) and ??? widgets (Polymorph)" > >> > but it is a fork: Do not expect Etoy/Nebraska to work in >> > Pharo. >> >> Again, Newcomers don't care in my opinion. > > Again: a newcomer to Pharo is not necessarily a newcomer to Smalltalk or > Squeak. I am a case in point: I intermittently dabbled with Squeak, so I have > a rough knowledge about the "kid stuff" living in the image. A clear statement > that this (for me) irrelevant stuff and its supporting cruft is removed, is a > plus. > > Just making Smalltalk, > s. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
