2010/10/8 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: > > On 07 Oct 2010, at 21:41, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > >> Yes, every time I must warn and apologize because I'm guilty of hijacking >> the name. > > [....] > > Thank you Nicolas, for the elaborate explanation (I should have checked the > wiki on SS first myself). > > With your latest updates, everything loads and all tests are green in Pharo > 1.1.1 > > Is this a correct summary then ? > > You started Squeak XTreams based on both ideas in VW Xtreams and your own, at > a time when VW Xtreams was not MIT licensed (and maybe incomplete). Your goal > was/is not API level compatibility with VW Xtreams. Squeak XTreams values > backwards compatibilty/integration a bit more, speed is important as well. > > I haven't looked deep enough into Squeak Xtreams yet. Reading the high level > descriptions (slides and website docs) of VW Xtreams I get this warm feeling > of 'Yes, this is it, this all makes perfect sense, feels good'. But apart > from some historical influences, the relation with Squeak Xtreams seems > rather limited. >
Yes that's a correct description of the past and present. The futur is opened, and the main options for Squeak Xtream are: 1) change goals to get closer to VW - with a compatible API and lot of mud underneath to glue the implementation on squeak 2) stay at a proof of concept experimental level 3) continue developping independantly as a replacement for Stream There is a lot of buzz recently, and a renewed interest in VW Xtream. So there is a chance to gather enough force to attempt a squeak port, whether based on Squeak Xtream experiments or not. But it's not to me alone to answer this challenge. Nicolas > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
