[squeak-dev] The version 3.10 does not work on Linux.

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri May 30 16:49:30 UTC 2008


On 30-May-08, at 9:25 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Diogenes Moreira
> <diogenes.moreira at gmail.com> wrote:
>> such as,  when you close the world
>> form the window menu. In linux squeak is killed without question, in
>> windows the squeak ask you if you are sure of the action.
>
> There was discussion regarding this issue about a year ago. I thought
> someone, (it might have been Ian), came up with a potential solution
> that got us part of the way. You might check the archives. I can't
> remember the final outcome.

IIRC the conclusion was that there is no very useful way to do it that  
would work for most, let alone all, versions of unix. Or something  
like that.

More generally there is no particular organised bias towards any  
platform amongst any of the most productive developers. There *is* a  
slight bias these days towards 'more modern OSs' in the sense that we  
expect more support from the OS than we might have done 10 (or 20, or  
30) years ago. This is one of the things that lead me to cease work on  
the Risc OS port, and it might well make life a touch more complex for  
anyone in the future wanting to port to a very bare platform. But  
really, if we want to take advantage of things like Cairo, GPUs,  
sockets... well pretty much anything beyond the truly basic.. then we  
have to put up with it.

What you have to remember is that almost everyone involved is  
volunteering their time. That means you have to tolerate the vagaries  
of their own interests, time availability and tolerance for whiners.  
Report problems clearly, precisely, without stupid complaints about  
how unfair everyone is being to your narrow little world, with  
examples to help recreate the problem and with debug logs whenever  
possible. Then occasionally remind us of the problem, politely. And if  
the problem goes away because of some OS fix or machine change, let us  
know so we don't waste still more time.

tim
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