On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:46:29 +0100, Martin Wirblat <sql.mawi at t-link.de> wrote:
> Volker Nitsch wrote:
> 
 
> > 2) What is bad about forking? I read a lot about packaging and debian
> > here. Well, there are the BSD's too. Lots of forks, but sharing a lot
> > of code.
> >
> Again yes - at least partly. Not lots of forks, but very few forks.

My "typo". Meant a few, thats why i refered to BSD. They have five
IIRC, Free, net, open, dragonfly, darwin. Each aims at a quite
different goal, but most of the code can be shared.

> Originally I thought Squeak should try not to fork, but after quite some
> people suggested otherwise, among them Avi, Ned and Lex, and after I saw
> how things develop, I changed my mind on this.
> 
> For me the prime candidate for a fork is the "researchers" image of the
> Berne Group.
> 
> regards,
> Martin
> 
> 


-- 
-Volker

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