OT - Squeak and the Broader Software Community

Dan Shafer dan at shafermedia.com
Sat Jul 8 20:55:42 UTC 2006


Stef....

On Jul 8, 2006, at 12:43 PM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> I can understand and I'm sorry that we have nothing to offer.

I certainly wouldn't go THAT far! For example, I'm spending some  
serious time with Seaside this weekend. I need a Web app framework  
for a series of upcoming projects. For those projects, native widget  
look-and-feel is absolutely irrelevant. I like the architectural  
ideas behind Seaside but I'm still at the very early learning stage,  
so I'm not yet sure it's as usable and powerful as, e.g., Django  
(Python) or TurboWidgets (also Python strangely enough). I've tried  
Ruby on Rails and found it too opaque although extremely powerful.

> But may be you could check vwxWidgets or the GTK binding and start  
> from there.

I've been in touch with Rob on wxSqueak and have done some  
experimenting with it on OS X. I plan to get it running on Windows  
soon and see how it looks and feels there. That may be the ultimate  
solution for a lot of what i want to do on the desktop, but for the  
near term, that won't satisfy my clients and colleagues because the  
wxSqueak stuff isn't yet ready to release.

Dan (Still a Squeakin')


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