[squeak-dev] Re: What is Forking Squeak

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ofset.org
Wed Dec 10 09:14:14 UTC 2008


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Igor Stasenko a écrit :

> +1 :)
> 
> That's why i think 3.11 team does right job.

I am tempted to think more is needed. I mean the key of success is when
the projects at the periphery, especially the big one like Seaside,
Etoys, Croquet, Pinesoft, Sophie are capable of aggregating energy to
build together the least common denominator. I fell only those projects
do have enough knowledge and energy to build the promised land: I guess
an opensource Smalltalk offering substantial advantage for business
opportunities. If these projects are not capable of aggregating energy,
I fell Squeak will stay as it is, probably for a long time 'cause
opensource project are hard to die.
Among the existing fork, so far I only see Pharo taking good direction
to aggregate energy: the Pharo promise is very clear (from the web site:
"we want Pharo to be the obvious choice for professional development in
an open-source Smalltalk"), the lead is clear and direct, then the
result is already very clear as well: indeed we can already see
peripheral projects aggregating energy in Pharo.

If you take a few second and think about it, for most forked project,
the cost to maintain the forked image (in top of the specific project)
can be important and it consumes energy. Of course it is just so easier
in short term perspective to fork, but the cost increase in the long
term and it could probably kill the project when the resource becomes
scarce.

Again I am only observing.

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