internal or external, that is the question

David Shaffer cdshaffer at acm.org
Mon Sep 5 17:18:40 UTC 2005


Andreas Raab wrote:

>
> Yes, I know. We see these questions every other year usually in the
> form of some demands that "you must organize your work like this" and
> of course, with absolutely no intent to help and actually improve
> things. I've gotten edgy about this over the years to the point that
> I've considered twice to just drop it and leave you guys doing
> whatever you think you can do better (who knows, maybe you can).
>
...or, just develop thicker skin.  :-) We need your work.  If someone
wants to contribute they just need instructions to get things going.  I
found the "start from the distributed sources" to be rather obvious but
maybe we can be even more explicit on the Swiki.  Since Squeak basically
ignores the more common open-source strategies (using sourceforge or
similar) people are going to have a harder time adjusting.  I share your
general attitude...that is, I don't know if things could be done better. 

The problem I see is one that probably concern others as well: I don't
want to maintain a fork.  Should I produce anything useful I'm
interested to see how difficult it will be to merge it into the current
trunk.  Probably I'll just go from release to release.  That is, when
the next unix VM is released I'll try to merge my work into that one. 
I've got the current 3.8a1 sources in a local CVS repository so this
seems like it will be absolutely trivial.  I can also generate diffs
against that release so hopefully merging into the SVN trunk won't be
hard should that day ever arrive.

I just joined the VM mailling list.  I'm happy to see that _that_ list
is mostly about real VM issues rather than process... (not to trivialize
the discussions going on here, its just hard to keep up with them).

David




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