On 3 November 2011 15:05, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote: > While there is no official relationship, it seems to me that the communities > are becoming very friendly and symbiotic, after the initial tension that > always accompanies a "break up" ;-) There were lively, fun, interesting > dinners including key members of both at ESUG this year. Fixes are > propagated both ways if the devs think they are valuable. Much of the API > seems to still be the same, as the major focus so far seems to be clean up. > During this process, Pharo has been much more aggressive about removing > ugly/dirty code because backward compatibility is not as primary to the > mission as it is in Squeak. Also, there are many exciting fundamental > projects underway in Pharo (new filesystem, compiler, browser, on and on), > so the forks may diverge quite a bit in the near future.
There are also a number of folks spending time in both communities: I wouldn't be surprised to see many of those exciting new projects being ported to Squeak. frank > > HTH, > Sean > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/relation-to-squeak-tp3986029p3986229.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
