On 01-06-2018, at 7:39 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote: [snip]
So I am a happy "hobby" Smalltalker. I make zero income from Squeak, but I can honestly tell you that a good deal of my actual professional income is supported by my hobby.
Now I'm almost the exact opposite in some ways. Smalltalk isn't exactly a hobby in my life; you could almost say it *is* my life. Over the last 35+ years I'd say 90+% of my income has come from Smalltalk and probably 75% specifically from Smalltalk on ARM. Which has to be one of the weirdest specialisations ever.
And I'm inclined to say that the current AIO setup is not a very effective one. An all-in-one package is a fine idea - providing the Smalltalk system and suitable VMs for all the major OS/hardware we can run on is very sensible. I think we've got to the stage where trying to make a unified one-click-run system probably causes more confusion than anything. Perhaps if we went for a simpler directory with the image/changes/sources and appropriate separate VM (sub)directories it might be easier to handle. Plus an actually helpful README to explain things.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Quality assurance: A way to ensure you never deliver shoddy goods accidentally.