Against wastefull forks (Re: Taking Ownership of Squeak (WAS Re: Python at Disney))

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Sat Mar 10 02:44:57 UTC 2001


At 4:28 PM -0600 3/9/01, Bob Hartwig wrote:
>At 04:04 PM 3/9/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>I think that the opensource vm and the very portable
>approach/implementation are
>>very strong attractions in themselves for people who want to do
>>industrial-strength Smalltalk or other non-multimedia things. You don't find
>>these in other dialects AFAIK.
>
>FWIW, this is my view also.  The complete openness of the system makes it
>too attractive to dismiss out of hand.  *BUT* that means that a fork for a
>project like Stable Squeak is probably necessary.

The part of your argument I missed is the "why."





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