Travis Griggs tgriggs@keyww.com said:
This (to me) is a huge tragedy. I'm a bit more guarded about Store than you (as a hardcore user); I'd say Store is in the process of becoming cool.
Why am I not hardcore? My company depends on it - is that hardcore enough? ;-)
Coming from where I came - Java, CVS - StORE is very cool.
Bottom line, why not just target the Squeak stuff at a PostgreSQL database.
That'd be nice. However, Cincom didn't exactly go through great lengths to make StORE interoperable: the code is closed, the database dictionary is undocumented, and there's no apparent process to change StORE; everything is heavily dependent on VW's concepts (packages, namespaces) which are quite like, but probably completely incompatible with, Squeak's ideas on these topics.
Unless StORE gets open sourced or there is a similar agreement that puts both 'players' (Cincom, the Squeak community) on a level field, I think it's a tempting, but bad, idea.