On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Nick Ager wrote:

> 
> 
> 2010/8/3 laurent laffont <[email protected]>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> with the experience around the XMLRPC project, ESUG wants to change strategy 
> to help growing business at the technical
> level. So what are the key areas where you think that effort should be 
> supported to help you making business in smalltalk?
> 
> Libraries
> 
> Make connecting to C libraries/Java libraries as plainless as possible.
> Make discovery of available Smalltalk libraries less painful:
>   * There's little or no differentiation on squeaksource between great, 
> well-tested reliable code, and "my first Smalltalk project"

yes we will have to address that and I believe that it should go via metacello

>   * Be great if ESUG sponsored the infrastructure for something like Apache 
> commons (http://commons.apache.org/) for Smalltalk projects. They have three 
> designations:
>       1) Commons Proper - repository of reusable components
>       2) Commons Sandbox - workspace for component development
>       3) Repository of sandbox components that are currently inactive

good idea. Now inactive does not mean sandboxed :) but yes we should have a 
categorisation of the projects. 
 We should be able to put that in place with bibliocello.


>   * This would aid in the discovery of projects.
>   * Ideally projects in the equivalent to "commons proper" would be part of a 
> CI system like Lukas' Hudson setup (http://hudson.lukas-renggli.ch/)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Nick 
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