Against wastefull forks (Re: Taking Ownership of Squeak (WAS Re: Python at Disney))

Dan Shafer dshafer at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 10 20:53:52 UTC 2001


--- Les Tyrrell <tyrrell at canis.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > However I don't have time to do this myself, nor the knowledge of the VMs
> > required.
> 
> Unless someone runs out and gets some investors involved, things like this
> will continue to rely upon the fragmentary contributions of individuals such
> as
> you and me.

Exactly my point. I'm simply saying that before I see it being likely that we
can get a company or consortium interested in forming something that looks like
a Red Hat for the Squeak universe, we need to resolve the questions of
modularity and extensibility that currently surround the evolving image.

None of what I'm saying is intended to be critical of Squeak, let alone
SqueakC. I love this environment and I'm most grateful to Disney and SqueakC
for the incredible work they continue to do. I just think it may be time for us
in the community to take some ownership here, recognizing that Disney doesn't
necessarily want to pay its team to do all of the work it will take to make
Squeak into the truly general-purpose tool I want.

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