[squeak-dev] Update Stream Gone? Replaced with Sapphire? What?

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Thu Apr 24 14:18:13 UTC 2008


> Bad things are happening, as I was reading on IRC. Some people  
> believe to be the owner of  Squeak?.

So apparently IRC is becoming the places to convey rumors....  
Excellent like that I will stay away from it.

You know sapphire (soon named diamond) is public and open
	http://sapphire.gforge.inria.fr/
and we are not interested to steal squeak, we let it to you guys. Have  
fun with it.

For sapphire, may be we will fail, may be we will succeed. But at the  
end we will have tried and this is important to break the tyranny
of the past.

Here is the sapphire manifesto taken from the ugly wiki of the forge: http://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/wiki/index.php?id=1211&type=g
Sapphire aka Smalltalk burn the disc pack/professional open source  
Smalltalk. . It wants to produce a clean and lean open-source cool  
Smalltalk. We want Sapphire to be the obvious choice for professional  
development in an open-source Smalltalk. Sapphire wants to take a  
fresh look at the Smalltalk philosophy and current implementations

Ideally in 3 years from now we would like to have a small kernel and  
some cool packages that we can load on top. We will not duplicate  
effort with Mini Image but build on top. The current focus is not to  
produce such a kernel but good packages.

	• Sapphire wants to help people invent the future.
	• Sapphire is a fork. It will start from Squeak but Sapphire is a  
fork: Do not expect Etoy/Nebraska to work in Sapphire.
	• We will try to avoid to reinvent the wheel but will change if  
change is better. We will produce a set of good packages that will be  
able to be loaded on a micro/tiny kernel.
Still Sapphire wants to be stable to make sure that we can produce  
ideas based on it. An important test for Sapphire is that Seaside http://www.seaside.st/ 
  should run on Sapphire!

Everybody is welcome: if you want to join just send me an email (stephane.ducasse at inria.fr 
  or to the mailing-list). You can register to the forge (request for  
the team ADAM) and I will add you the project

Sapphire manisfesto
	• Better for the better
	• Beauty to learn from
	• Not backward compatible
	• Clean, lean and fast


Stef


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