I joined Lukas thanks... although I was not in that dinner!!! :-) On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you John for the excellent Mac VMs in the past. > > Thank you Esteban for the excellent Mac VMs in the future; and for the > dinner in Palermo Hollywood last week :-) > > Cheers, > Lukas > > On 21 November 2010 22:42, John M McIntosh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ten years back I took over the role of maintaining the Macintosh VM from > John Maloney. Dan Ingalls wrote a letter of responsibility for me, which I > accepted and have strived to carry forward. > > > > But it's time to assume a different role and I have asked Esteban > Lorenzano to take over the build responsibility. Some of you know him > already from his role in building Mars for Squeak, his presentations at ESUG > conferences, and the awards he has won for his technical innovations. > > > > It's been a fun decade & three month, lots of versions were created, > Apple unlike other other OS providers has driven lots of change and > excitement, now they look forward to an OS-X app store, so it's time for > someone new and eager to figure out how to address that. Over that decade > we've moved from 68040 based machines, thru PowerPC to MacIntel, and from > OS-9 thru 7 generations of OS-X. > > > > On Jan 1st 2011 (or earlier) I will no longer do builds or officially > support the macintosh VM, I will of course help Esteban thru any > difficulties in the migration of responsibilities, and I'll forward that > letter from Dan, it's steeped with responsibility, a bit of honour, > expectations of hours (decades?) of work, and I assure Esteban a great > journey. Today for Esteban I consolidated folders of Squeak VM build > memories which came to nearly 6GB of stuff, fortunately most of it is > obsolete because of the Cocoa os-x V5 rewrite. > > > > I thank the community for bearing with me for the good times and the > rough times as I fought the daemons of operating system change, no doubt > I'll watch how things progress, yet the responsibility for what happens will > lie elsewhere. > > > > Some close friends have asked am I giving up Squeak & Smalltalk? No it's > just a change of pace, I'll be around to poke at interesting issues, and at > this time I welcome any paid consulting (Smalltalk or iOS), email me if you > have leads... > > > > Over the years, Viewpoints Research Institute, ESUG and others have > provide some funding for this work, I thank them for their contributions. > > > > Any message of thanks should be send to my wife of 27 years > [email protected] who has diligently support my contributions to the > Smalltalk community and as a non computer person always wondered why? For > Sophie we had a saying: "For the betterment of mankind" . For the folks who > worked on Smalltalk, Sophie, and the OLPC they know why we do this. > > > > To the other VM maintainers I thank them for them for the trust that I > would do the right thing, so for Squeak onward we go.... > > > > - > > > =========================================================================== > > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> Twitter: > squeaker68882 > > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > > > =========================================================================== > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Lukas Renggli > www.lukas-renggli.ch > > -- *Hernán Wilkinson Agile Software Development, Teaching & Coaching Mobile: +54 - 911 - 4470 - 7207 email: [email protected] site: http://www.10Pines.com <http://www.10pines.com/>*
