Thanks John! Alexandre
On 21 Nov 2010, at 22:42, John M McIntosh 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 stuff, fortunately most of it is obsolete because of the Cocoa os-x V5 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 > =========================================================================== > > > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
