[Seaside-dev] Seaside 3.0 final and Pharo 1.0

[Julian Fitzell]

Seaside 3.0 is finished. Pharo 1.0 is finished. If it can be made to
work easily then, sure, go for it. We don't have to promise that any
future versions of Seaside will keep working with 1.0.

Julian

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com> wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 02:26 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>>
>> 2010/10/7 Julian Fitzell<jfitzell at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Well, I personally have no issue with someone maintaining a Grease
>>> platform package for Pharo1.0 so I'm reluctant to say it's not
>>> supported. But I think this falls into the same camp as Squeak or any
>>> other platform: we'll do whatever we can to support people who want to
>>> maintain support on other platforms but the core team is focusing on
>>> just one (currently, the current stable version of Pharo).
>>
>> If it's really just the three overrides then it would be easy to do.
>> OTOH Dale was the first requesting it. If there's strong demand for it
>> then I think it would be worth the effort, otherwise not.
>
> Exactly,
>
> I just happened to have grabbed a older Pharo1.1 image for updating and
> whamo I got a bunch of test failures ... tests that passed before upgrading
> to Seaside3.0 final and Grease final.
>
> When I announce the availability of the new configurations for Grease and
> Seaside3.0, I will have to tell folks the configs no longer work on
> Pharo1.0, to cut off the (presumably) inevitable this doesn't work on
> Pharoxyz emails .... So I am still at a loss what I should say ...
>
> For me it would have been easier to just support Pharo1.0 than it has been
> to write the collection of emails, but I am concerned that if/when someone
> says "Seaside3.0 blah doesn't work on Pharo1.0" that the response will be
> "don't use Pharo1.0" if that will be the case, then lets up front say that
> Seaside3.0/Grease are no longer supported on Pharo1.0 and be done with it...
>
> It is trivial to support Pharo1.0 with Metacello, so this isn't about the
> amount of work, but about _your_ intent.
>
> Dale
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