[squeak-dev] Re: Unix updates

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Thu Dec 17 08:59:45 UTC 2009


Hi!

José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
>> Please, contact us directly on any outstanding issue, which you think
>> prevents you from moving forward.
>> I think we will manage to solve any of them if we will work together as a
>> team.
>
> Great, I just want to add that it would be a good progress having only one
> Debian version of the squeak packages, updated, and done between all the
> people who is interested in it. Now there are at least three packages for
> the same squeak-vm: one in Debian, another in Ubuntu, and another in
> squeak.org That's simply a waste of resources. Last april I open a
> collaborative project on https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-squeak/ ,
> Both Matej Kosik and Bert Freudenberg have sent emails announcing it, but
> nobody has joined or apported a line. I think that would be a good starting
> point but I'm open to any other suggestion.

Let me just say:

- Thank you for pulling this work! It is invaluable.

- I usually build my VMs from source etc but still find it VERY 
important to have a solid *up to date* Debian/Ubuntu package for the VM 
in official repositories. I think a lot of us share that view.

regards, Göran




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