Hi Göran, On 23 Apr 2012, at 11:43, Göran Krampe wrote:
> Hi folks! > > Having skimmed this thread I must say that I am amazed how easy we fall into > Squeak vs Pharo flamewars - haven't we gotten past that by now? Yes, we should be past that, but just quickly skimming the thread, it seems as if Chris Muller was the first to include the Squeak vs Pharo discussion into this thread. > Now, the most interesting part is IMHO not discussed - how does the > leadership of Pharo view this work? Is it meriting enough to be a blessed > project for Pharo? > > Just curious because it does present an interesting case - an important part > being primarily developed in *another* Smalltalk than Pharo (Cuis). Just > cloning it off into Pharo and forking seems... less optimal. Any ideas or > thoughts? I am not familiar with the subject, but it seems like a nice editor was written on top of a specific GUI framework on top of Cuis, a nice, clean Smalltalk. The question of porting seems like asking to convert an very GUI intensive app from the Microsoft Windows API to the Apple Cocoa API, or vice versa. How realistic can that be, without forking ? Sven
