On 9 March 2012 18:40, Stefan Krecher <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 9. März 2012 17:24 schrieb Frank Shearar <[email protected]>: >> Um. That makes no sense. Pharo developers should develop Pharo, not >> something that merely uses Pharo. Or: "Pharo's not being developed >> fast enough! Let's make the devs work on something else!" > > if one of the main goals of the pharo-team would be something like > "increase the popularity of pharo", there would be no problem with > pharo-developers working on some project using pharo. And i guess that > everybody here would like to see pharo more popular and everybody is > working somehow on reaching this goal - but it is no bundled community > action with one collective goal. > But of course you are right - pharo-devs should develop pharo an make > it even better - so other people can write great software with it. >
Well, IMO, popularity is wrong objective. Look at the real world: we have pop stars like Britney Spears. So, does it makes me my life better? I really doubt it. Or we having a popular stuff like iStuff.. and then we have developers which cannot even use Pharo for iStuff without ultimate permission of Apple. > regards, > Stefan > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
