[squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Just a little point

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jul 10 22:16:25 UTC 2009


Andreas Raab wrote:
> Hi Keith -
>
> Let's cut this discussion short a little since I don't think either
> one of us is going to convince the other. To summarize, my position is
> that yes, you've done some interesting work with SUnit, but the
> reality is that this doesn't entitle you to anything. If you want your
> code to be used you've got to create trust into what you've done
> (i.e., have users) and you've got to convince others to include it
> (i.e., work with the distros). This goes for anything we do in open
> source but doubly so if core packages are involved.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
The distro's are effectively a closed shop.

That is the whole point of replacing the release process with something
that is distributed and allows many different images to be built.

Keith





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