OT - Squeak and the Broader Software Community
Rob Gayvert
rtg at rochester.rr.com
Sun Jul 9 13:08:50 UTC 2006
Unfortunately, rather slowly. Right now I'm just focused on getting to a
stable wxSqueak base.
.. Rob
Daniel Poon wrote:
> 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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