project "squeak" on sourceforge.net

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Aug 24 17:15:24 UTC 2004


Have a look at SqueakSource...

Stef
On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Kamil Kukura wrote:

>  I just noticed there is already project "squeak" on sourceforge.net 
> with interesting message from SF team saying Squeak is not open-source 
> project: 
> http://sourceforge.net/support/noss_exception.php?group_id=5506
>  Further on, summary considers this project as widely available on 
> many platforms, however there are only files published regarding Win32 
> virtual machine.
>
>  This can easily scare off some IT managers examining what is Squeak 
> good for, or approving acceptance of project based on Squeak. Perhaps 
> it would be useful if project's admins could publish a little page 
> explaining license issues and pointing to relevant wiki pages.
>
>  Meanwhile, it would be possible to establish our own forge similiar 
> to RubyForge site which is based on GForge Project. There is already 
> support for tracking bugs, patches and feature requests. Each project 
> can have its own forum and mailing lists and more. For simplicity sake 
> a particular project's home page can point to its SqueakSource page. 
> Probably very first projects would be enrolled for VM development and 
> basic/full image distribution.
>
>  I don't know. Would the community welcome to have something like 
> http://forge.squeakfoundation.org for homing Squeak's core and other 
> projects? In near future maybe I will have my own server connected to 
> the backbone here in Czech Republic, but it is too soon to say.
>
>  --
>  Kamil Kukura
>
>




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