Hi Tansel,
it is hard to estimate the concrete effort for porting these tools to other Smalltalk dialects. The framework has several dependencies to other libraries, tools, and makes extensive use of meta-programming. I think as closer the dialect is to Squeak as easier it should be. Nevertheless, all concepts and ideas are independent of Squeak/Smalltalk and can also be adapted to other OOP languages. That means, there should be no showstopper that prevents Path tools to work in another environment. For example, a current master thesis of our group deals with porting these tools to Eclipse/Java on the basis of a common meta-model and it works very well.
Best regards, Michael
On 23.02.2014, at 23:56, Tansel Ersavas tansel@tansel.org wrote:
Congratulations, It looks like a major advancement to software development process!
How difficult would it be to convert to other dialects?
Tansel
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