Revived from the dead [Re: [squeak-dev] [Cuis] Cuis]

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 15:36:18 UTC 2010


2010/1/24 keith <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>:
>
> What's your goal ?
> Develop an application ?
> Develop a cross-fork module/package/library ?
>
> Both: Develop an application using cross-fork packages.
> However the way things are going, its all I can manage to do the
> application, keeping all the balls in the air is a problem.
>
> If the later (RIO), then use what every other cross-fork do,
> compatibility layers (Grease...).
>
> Never heard of it, I have been out of the loop for a while.
> Is grease a package? why didn't whoever developed Grease, add to LPF which
> is already doing this? Or perhaps we just need to add Grease to LPF.
>

AFAIK, Grease is not universal. It is for seaside cross-dialect compatibility.
Not sure it works for you, maybe... but the idea should work.

> Otherwise, concentrate on the fork you have chosen and let people port
> if they are interested.
>
> I haven't chosen a fork, I was going to use pharo, but found it somewhat
> reliant on OB which I dont get along with.
> So discovering that I didnt actually have a fork that I found interesting I
> cam back here to see if cuis would do the trick.
> this looks like it might be too much work.
> So I will probably just stay where I am, earn some money and employ someone
> else to port things later on (you never know).
> In the meantime the community looses the maintainence of any of the
> cross-fork packages I already provide.
> Keith
>



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