[squeak-dev] Logging from the Compiler

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 20:44:23 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 December 2013 19:43, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I like the Announcements route.  SystemChangeNotifier is a dog.
>>> Compatibility with Pharo is in the long-term very important
>>
>>
>> Freedom from Pharo constraints is even more important.
>>
>>> (but it has to be a two-way street, and not blind).
>>
>>
>> I don't believe Pharo will ever be interested in a two-way street of
>> compatibility with Squeak.  If anything, the opposite.  Neither group is
>> interested in feeling constrained by the other.  The Pharo fork happened for
>> good reasons.
>>
>> We should pursue our own wildest imaginations, not follow Pharo.
>
> No arguments, but...
>
>>  We should
>> steal components of Pharo which offer the kind of functional leverage
>> ratio's appropriate for Squeak.
>
> ... you can't do that without some kind of compatibility. Not without
> entirely rewriting stuff, which is kind've missing the point of
> stealing.

Not rewriting, porting.  Which doesn't lose the value of stealing.


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