[squeak-dev] Re: Which list?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Jun 29 11:58:24 UTC 2008


Am 29.06.2008 um 10:28 schrieb Robert Wierschke:

> Hi,
>
> I would prefer to use jsqueakinterest for the following reasons:
>
> 	• The goal is to develop a Java interpreter for Squeak images and  
> not to develop Squeak in a way that it can be interpreted by a Java  
> Squeak implementation. So development of JSqueak should not  
> influence development of Squeak.
> 	• The squeak-dev list is already very active. Hence someone  
> interested in only on of the topics might be disturbed by the other  
> discussions on the list. I'm not interested in developing Squeak  
> itself (for now).
> 	• The jsqueakinterest list is already there and on Sun's official  
> JSqueak download page announced as the discussion list for JSqueak  
> (hence the name ;)). So moving the discussion to annother list might  
> be a problem if Dan does not change this on the JSqueak page.  
> Furthermore if Dan intended to use squeak-dev as the mailing list  
> why does he setup and announced jsqueakinterest?
>
> But I'm afraid I'm already outnumberd.

Not really :) Since development will indeed deal with VM development  
in Java mostly, the squeak-dev list seems inappropriate. The Squeak vm- 
dev list would fit better, but a special list should work as well. So  
I'm for using the jsqueak list.

- Bert -





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