[squeak-dev] Logging from the Compiler

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 17:49:35 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

+1
-- 
best,
Eliot
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