[squeak-dev] The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean)

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 07:08:55 UTC 2009


2009/6/29 Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
> The point is that, to me, this question of backward compatibility is not
> theoritical. I do have a big amount of code and objects that I will just
> have to reimplement if backward compatibility is broken. I mean months of
> work, just to keep in sync with this kind of development. And if I have to
> do that for each release, well then it would be much easier for me to stay
> in 3.8 and maintain my own fork.
>

So what? Some people keep using even older images.
But in case if you want to stay on the bleeding edge and harvest the
fruits of most cool & advanced stuff, this is always demands a
sacrifices.
So, should people push the brake, just because you can't run at same speed?

>
> Stef
>



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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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