[squeak-dev] Re: The future of Squeak & Pharo
(was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean)
Douglas Brebner
squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 1 18:00:34 UTC 2009
Keith Hodges wrote:
> Douglas Brebner wrote:
>
>> I feel the Pharo people deserve a beer for lighting a fire under the
>> Squeak community and getting people motivated :)
>>
>>
> The Squeak community was motivated before Pharo, and lots of work has
> been done in the past couple of years outside of Pharo to improve squeak
> for use in a commercial environment. My own contribution to this includes:
>
>
I'm well aware that there are motivated individuals. I was referring to
the community as a whole.
> What pharo managed to do was demotivate several people who had
> contributed, and their contributions were summarily ignored.
>
>
It has motivated some people who were not contributing to do so too.
> As a second example I consider the fact that Pharo refuses to adopt or
> contribute to MC1.5 with a view to adoption. MC1.5 included a merge of
> several MC forks, and common tools are essential for cross fertilisation
> within the community. I take their actions as a demonstration that they
> are not interested in being community players or working with any
> broader community vision that I we or anyone might propose.
>
>
Didn't Matthew Fulmer say he was going to be working on this?
More information about the Squeak-dev
mailing list
|