[squeak-dev] Stuff
keith
keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Dec 16 00:39:44 UTC 2009
> > So the question is, has ever been considered to simply build the
> bridge between
> > communities and to use the PharoCore image as the base for Squeak?
>
> This wouldn't work for the same reasons that it wouldn't work to use a
> Squeak-trunk image as the basis for Pharo. You should propose that at
> some point just to see what kind of reaction you get ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
Yes please propose it. That is an excellent idea. Lets use the
PharoCore image as the base for future Squeak releases! It would work
excellently, it might require some humility from Andreas. In my
opinion it is the only sensible way forward.
Let me divulge a little secret here, the biggest reason that we kept
the original 3.11 development always said to be about "process" and
not about the actual release image, is that with a decent image
building and testing process in place it would then have been possible
to build and test a future squeak release pilot on top of some of the
pharo-core packages. For us Pharo was simply a pilot project moving
the core forward that we could borrow the best bits from it as
appropriate. By adopting pharo in carefully integrated pieces we would
perhaps of stood a chance of keeping the community together.
The annoying thing was that Pharo team seemed to be insisting on
diverging far more than was necessary and consistently refused to
adopt any shared values or code that would have made this approach
easier, we really need as a starting point, shared code loading tools,
package management tools, and shared testing tools at the very least.
i.e. Installer, and MC1.5/6 were developed with this in mind, and so
was SUnit-improved, but the Pharo team refused to touch either of
these projects.
The more that the squeak-core image changes (i.e. in trunk) without
tracking pharo's core packages the more diverse and impossible future
integration will become. The old 3.11 effort was about having the
tools to enable packages to be developed and tested in both Pharo and
Squeak and all other forks, and then extending this to suggest common
core packages as a way forward for everyone.
So now that our to-be carefully planned evolution of squeak-core,
using pharo for inspiration, has been trashed by random hacking on
trunk, adopting PharoCore as a base image is probably the viable way
forward for this community to remain viable.
You already know that I don't see the squeak community as viable,
since it eats its young.
Sooner or later the board or someone will realize this, they will get
elected to the board, and all those of you who have been working hard
on trunk will discover that all your contributions have been wasted.
Never mind eh.
Keith
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