OT - Squeak and the Broader Software Community

Daniel Poon mr.d.poon at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 11:47:02 UTC 2006


Hi Rob

Last time we talked, you told me that you were using wxSqueak as a 
target platform for a legacy VSE application. Are you able to say how 
that port is going?

Cheers

Daniel Poon

Rob Gayvert wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> My 0.4 release was reasonably solid for Win32, but the Mac version 
> wasn't as good (partly my fault, partly the state of wxMac 2.5), and the 
> Linux version wasn't really usable. I'm hoping that the 0.5 release 
> (coming RSN) will work well on all three platforms.
> 
> As for all of the other discussion about wx/gtk/Spoon, I liked Cees' 
> response the best: Why one UI? There are pros and cons to any UI 
> toolkit, so the more options there are for Squeak, the more 
> opportunities there will be to use it. My goal with wxSqueak has been to 
>  keep it compatible with the latest release of Squeak, with minimal VM 
> changes, and maybe eventually no VM changes at all. And ultimately, it 
> should work fine with Spoon. But I think it should always be an add-on 
> package to some Squeak/Spoon core.
> 
> .. Rob
> 
> Dan Shafer wrote:
>> Cees.....
>>
>> I am going by what Rob said about it. He advised me not to rely on it  
>> for a project just yet, but I think he's actively working on it again.
>>
>> Your news is encouraging. Perhaps Rob is being overly cautious.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Cees De Groot wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/8/06, Dan Shafer <dan at shafermedia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> Why not? Did you test it? Find issues?
>>>
>>> I used it for a project last year, and whatever problems we had, they
>>> weren't wx-related...
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 




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