thanks Paul
:)
we are making progress
> Rails had 468 committers for its 3.2.0 release [1]. Pharo probably had
> less than a tenth of that between 1.4 and 2.0 and Seaside 3.0 maybe a
> fifth of Pharo. As Stuart mentioned there is work being done.
> Smalltalk is the 48th most popular language on github[2] and so there
> are projects and tooling for interacting with it. On the mailing list
> archive across all Smalltalk public mailing lists there are ~2200 posts
> about github[3] discussing various reasons why things are or are not
> happening.
>
> Its not that there's not effort, or it doesn't exist, or isn't
> considered. Its that its either not there yet, or not going to get
> there because a better option will come up or along that people in the
> more-limited-in-number-of-people-than-you're-used-to open source
> Smalltalk community want to work on more than github integration [4].
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> Which features of git are you missing? Which of github?
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> [1] http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/releases
> [2] https://github.com/languages/Smalltalk
> [3]
> http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=1294792&query=github
> [4] http://www.smalltalkhub.com
>
> On 03/19/2013 06:58 PM, Victor Stan wrote:
>> 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
>>
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