My read on OpenCobalt was that it was not a fork, but a complete replacement. The consortium was effectively saying "we're the big guys now, and we're going to do this right..." It is fascinating to see that Smalltalk won out. I still don't like the compiler changes: never do _to_ the language what you can do _using_ the language. Well, ok, there are exceptions such as primitives, but Tea really should be an event/announcement system made from ordinary objects (including some weaklings, of course).
I also do not care for the forced 3D immersion idea. Their code for handling 3D objects was gorgeous, at least when I last looked. They also appear to have tried to separate some of it for use by other projects. I need to dig into that. Hopefully it's the same stuff, but embeddable in a traditional desktop app. Minor disagreements aside, I wish them well with it, and I'm thrilled to see Smalltalk back on the job :) Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Torsten Bergmann [asta...@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:48 AM To: squeak-...@lists.squeakfoundation.org Cc: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] OpenCroquet Website Bill wrote (on pharo list): >They appear to back full tilt on the Smalltalk front, using Squeak. >http://www.opencobalt.org Yes, I know OpenCobalt and I thought of it as a fork. According to the wikipedia page [1] (which only links to Croquet) it sits on top of the Croquet SDK. Similar to the Krestianstvo SDK. However - would be nice if http://www.opencroquet.org would point also to - http://www.opencobalt.org and - http://www.krestianstvo.org/ if anyone knows a person who is able to change the page. Bye T. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone
