> On 13 May 2015, at 15:38, Julien Delplanque <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So, I throw the fork on github and provide a compatibility package on 
> smalltalkhub?

It is not  a demand. Just a suggestion. You can do whatever you want and nobody 
can impose you how to handle your code :)

Esteban

> 
> I wanted to improve the lib, but I don't own it and there is no "pull 
> request" system on smalltalk hub.
> I don't want to bother the owner of the repository with changes I want to do. 
> He probably has others things to do.
> 
> Also, I don't use and don't have interest in squeak and gemstone (for the 
> moment) so providing compatibility with pharo 2-3-4, squeak and gemstone... I 
> will not do that.
> 
> Finally, I already made some improvements in some objects of the model part 
> what should I do?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Julien
> 
> On 13/05/15 15:03, Stephan Eggermont wrote:
>> On 13/05/15 13:44, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>>> honestly, the more and more the time passes the less and less we are 
>>> compatible… and this will increase will time.
>>> if you want to keep compatibility you will have to provide compatibility 
>>> abstractions and packages (in the same way Seaside uses Grease, etc.)
>>> 
>>> now… In this particular case I didn’t see any contributor from outside 
>>> Pharo community… so is just an “abstract reflection”, not a reality… I 
>>> would wait until some one in the Squeak community decides to use it and 
>>> then it creates the compatibility layer (adding layers are usually a bad 
>>> thing… specially when they are not necessary).
>> 
>> In this case forking is a very bad idea.
>> 
>> It has been maintained by Paul for squeak, pharo and gemstone.
>> We know that not every library will be up to date as soon as a new
>> version of Pharo is released. Please dump the fork and make a
>> compatibility package.
>> 
>> Stephan
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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