4th Estate server (roarr.com) - gone

Roel Wuyts rwuyts at vub.ac.be
Tue Aug 1 08:33:25 UTC 2000


Do you need a server to put them on ? Since we are already serving Smalltalk
User Group related sites, we could take one more :)

> Fellow Squeakers:
>
> As a few of you have noted offline, the 4th Estate ftp
> server where we stored our Squeak contributions for
> download is no longer there.  That is because, quite
> literally, it is no longer there, and we don't
> expect it to come back.
>
> The projects will be reappearing shortly, although
> exactly when/where is still unclear.  Please feel free
> to contact me offline and I will be happy to discuss
> the status of each.  All of them require some clean-up
> before any but the most cussed and determined
> Squeakers will want to try to install them (see
> previous discussions on this list).  That clean-up is
> in progress.
>
> The projects are:
>
> - port of T-Gen to Squeak
> - a project related to platform events (as yet
> nameless)
> - a versioning doo-dah, which you may have heard
> referred to as
> "Roarr"
> - a platform level messaging channel (nameless? - I
> forget)
>
> I will post updates as these projects become available
> for download.  Please note that while the code is open
> source under the Squeak license, the name "Roarr" is a
> trademark of 4th Estate, and that project when it
> reappears will be known as "Tefkar".  Well, why not
> "Tefkar"?
>
> On behalf of the ex-4th Estate Squeakers,
> Paul
>
> wnchips at home.com
>
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Roel Wuyts                    Programming Technology Lab
rwuyts at vub.ac.be              Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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