I'm ashamed to admit that, but I'm not aware about those magic functionality and amazing advantages GitHub can offer. Couild you please explain (me) that? (I'm not ignorant in general, just didn't have a chance/time to explore that, though I've used GitHub few times and have account there.) And I hope that overview could be a good specification for smalltalkers to implement and perhaps even excel.
As for me, I'm not a big fan of migrating everything to GitHub, not only because I don't know its advantages but also because I still believe in objects. I still think live objects are much better then dead text. And I just beware of giving this essential advantage for some bells and whistles. -- Best regards, Dennis Schetinin 2013/3/20 Victor Stan <[email protected]> > Why are SmallTalk projects/source code hosted on SS3 Gemstone instead of > Git/GitHub? > > I'm coming to SmallTalk from the world of web development with open source > software, primarily Rails, and I'm very familiar with the amazing social > network/source code repository that is GitHub. It is truly an industry > defining entity, so many open source projects have been able to harness the > ease of use, features and community around Git and GitHub. > > At the moment, as I'm trying to learn more about SmallTalk and Pharo > especially, (my primary interest in Pharo is to use it as a web development > platform), I am a bit shocked, if I may be frank, at the tooling used for > source code and open source project management. I see that the popular > trend now is to move to SS3/Gemstone, and I appreciate anyone that helps > open source development/projects, but I can't see how they can even come > close to the functionality of GitHub for source code hosting and OS project > management, so I pose the question: is there an effort, why or why not, to > start integrating with GitHub and Git for source code management? > > I know that historical precent and the tools built into Pharo/SmallTalk > images, like Monticello are predecessors to GUI source control, but given > the leaps that Git has managed to take, in distributed source code > management, how does the existing SmallTalk community feel about it's > current tooling in this regard? > > Thanks, > > Victor Stan > > Schedule me: > http://quicklyschedule.quicklyschedule.me/victor > > Add me to your address book - it's easy! > http://contactmonkey.com/victor > >
