[Seaside] Seaside, Traits, portability

[stephane ducasse]

Sorry but I do not understand what you are saying.
I'm just saying that the argument against trait could be that you do  
not have adequate browsers
to code with them, not portability since we can remove them.
I would like to hear what philippe and lukas are thinking about that.

Stef

> Stephane, I'll tell you where exactly things have gone wrong for  
> me. We are using VisualWorks for a reason and for someone to  
> suggest that I should ask Cincom to get my money back on this list  
> is somewhat interesting, because the whole idea behind seaside like  
> many have pointed out since is to have a framework that's clean and  
> portable. We can't afford such arrogance simply because we don't  
> have enough traction and mindshare to justify it and the only  
> chance for us to ever get any of  either is to work together  
> instead of doing what we're doing now.
>
> Having said all that, have you heard of anyone trying to port MC to  
> VisualWorks? Its something I'm going to play with on my flight back  
> home from Toronto after my talk, but thought I'd check here first  
> in case someone had started already.
>
> Avi, not sure if Colin is on this list, perhaps he might know of  
> such attempts?
>
> Cheers!
>
> -Boris
> (Sent from a BlackBerry)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org <seaside- 
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> To: Seaside - general discussion <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tue May 01 01:31:05 2007
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Seaside, Traits, portability
>
> just a last remark:
>         traits do not exist at run-time AT ALL. They are just  
> structuring
> static elements.
>         So this to me like saying that using MC is not good to run  
> squeak
> application.
>         I do not really understand the problem that traits have.  
> May be I'm
> too stupid to understand.
>         especially since for ports the code can be without traits.
>
> Stef
>
> On 30 avr. 07, at 19:45, Avi Bryant wrote:
>
> > On 4/29/07, Boris Popov <boris at deepcovelabs.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Why be so cynical? Different strokes for different folks. I've
> >> felt many
> >> times that you couldn't care less about anyone not using squeak
> >> and it does
> >> nothing but motivate me to unsubscribe from the list for good.
> >
> > Boris, please don't unsubscribe. I think you'll find the vast  
> majority
> > of people on this list care deeply about keeping Seaside portable
> > across dialects - I would guess that at this point it's the largest
> > portable Smalltalk codebase, and the largest cross-dialect  
> community,
> > and that's very important to me and to many others.
> >
> > For that reason and others, nobody who uses Seaside in production is
> > seriously proposing that we make it depend on Traits - as far as I
> > know, nobody uses Traits in production, period.  By all means, let's
> > have an academic discussion about the costs and benefits of Traits,
> > but let's do it with a very clear understanding that it is indeed
> > academic, and *not* a proposal that's going to affect mainline  
> Seaside
> > any time even vaguely soon.
> >
> > Avi
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