Keith Hodges wrote:
Douglas Brebner wrote:
I feel the Pharo people deserve a beer for lighting a fire under the Squeak community and getting people motivated :)
The Squeak community was motivated before Pharo, and lots of work has been done in the past couple of years outside of Pharo to improve squeak for use in a commercial environment. My own contribution to this includes:
I'm well aware that there are motivated individuals. I was referring to the community as a whole.
What pharo managed to do was demotivate several people who had contributed, and their contributions were summarily ignored.
It has motivated some people who were not contributing to do so too.
As a second example I consider the fact that Pharo refuses to adopt or contribute to MC1.5 with a view to adoption. MC1.5 included a merge of several MC forks, and common tools are essential for cross fertilisation within the community. I take their actions as a demonstration that they are not interested in being community players or working with any broader community vision that I we or anyone might propose.
Didn't Matthew Fulmer say he was going to be working on this?