[squeak-dev] The future of Squeak & Pharo

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Jun 28 19:07:45 UTC 2009


On 28.06.2009, at 20:53, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> writes:
>
> Colin> IMHO, Squeak.org needs to either recommit to Etoys and  
> education as its
> Colin> primary mission, or break compatibility and become a general  
> Smalltalk
> Colin> platform for a variety of applications. This suggests a  
> merger with
> Colin> either Squeakland or Pharo, but even without merging,  
> Squeak.org can
> Colin> get its mojo back if it chooses an identity.
>
> At this point, I'd be leaning back towards squeak central  
> reintegrating Pharo,
> given that Etoys already forked.


Even disregarding what the Pharo people would think about the idea,  
doesn't that argument go both ways? As in "given that Pharo already  
forked, Etoys can now be reintegrated to Squeak"?

- Bert -




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