Hi guys, I believe this mail exchange belongs to the Pharo and not to the Smallwiki mailing list :).
Cheers, Doru On 5 May 2009, at 09:33, stéphane ducasse wrote: > Apparently there is no value in what we are doing: > removing etoy, removing a lot of ***SHIT*** from squeak, fixing tons > of bugs (the bug archives > is full of fixed bugs and fixes problems), writing more tests, > cleaning a HUGE spaghetti mess > (preferences....). Utilities is one of this crap. And of course > Author could be made a bit better. > Of course there is no preference to avoid to warn on deprecated call! > > Apparently you only do stuff right. Perfect! But we will do it our > way. Period. > > May be you should put your code under GPL or something like that > we will not even thing that we should have a look at it. > > What we are doing is totally useless for you. Excellent! Continue to > bark if this > helps you. > > Stef > > > On May 4, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Keith Hodges wrote: > >> John M McIntosh wrote: >>> >>> On 4-May-09, at 6:10 AM, Keith Hodges wrote: >>> >>>> I don't use pharo myself. Goodness knows why they break things as >>>> simple >>>> as author initials. >>>> >>>> Keith >>> >>> >>> Er because of the re-licensing of the squeak code base and the >>> discovery that using JUST >>> initials made the chore very difficult to determine who wrote the >>> code. So they enforce names now >> Thats not my point my point is that they broke the code. >> >> The way forward is to engineer a solution, not just hack something in >> that breaks what everyone has already. >> >> One could propose a new loadable Author package that handles >> everything >> and publish that for everyone that cares to use it, rather than >> forcing >> code to break and all manner of nightmares managing two streams per >> package. >>> since Pharo has a more business target and the first question those >>> folks ask, what's the license >>> and code ownership like? >> I use Squeak for Business, and I will continue to do so. The whole >> approach behind pharo is flawed because it is dedicated to making >> more >> work for me the coder of stuff that is for all. This is one instance >> where I feel entirely justified in saying I told you so. >> >> Keith >> _______________________________________________ >> Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki > > _______________________________________________ > Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki -- www.tudorgirba.com "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?" _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
