Keith, Interestingly, I could make only minor modifications, and write that same paragraph with Squeak as the stone wall. The Squeak community ignored many wonderful ideas over a period of years of maintenance and incremental development; IMHO, look there to explain the numerous forks. Pharo has a stated objective of breaking what needs to be broken to make progress, and it's not even at a first release yet.
You seem to think that the world will be a great place if all the Squeak forks can share code. What about VW, Dolphin, X, etc.? In the spirit of cooperation that you demand from the alpha versions of Pharo, Squeak could have, years ago, done something about its isolation of users of other dialects via its unique handling of underscores. The Pharo team is not being rude; they are focused on a huge task for the good of research, developers, users/customers, and Smalltalk. There is no animosity toward Squeak; there is determination to eliminate incompatibilities and cruft in general. Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hodges Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:43 AM [snip] If you wonder why I keep banging on about this, I have over 40 packages that I maintain both publically and as part of my work. I have gone to an extreme amount of effort to try and minimise the pain, and the pharo guys are ignoring the IDEAS and the code, and therefore making unnecessary work for everyone. Keith _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
