[squeak-dev] Logging from the Compiler

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 08:41:00 UTC 2013


On 12 Dec 2013, at 20:44, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ah but the epsilon between rewriting and porting tends to zero as the two systems diverge.

frank


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