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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
