[squeak-dev] NuScratch alpha release

jannik laval jannik.laval at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 07:26:31 UTC 2014


Hi Tim,


2014/1/18 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>

>
> On 17-01-2014, at 11:08 PM, jannik laval <jannik.laval at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I am not sure why we would share instead of working together on the same
> platform. You have knowledge that I don't have and I did a work that you
> are redoing.
>
> First problem there is that I simply don’t like the UI & tools in Pharo,
> so I’m not going to use them. That leads to problems with simple sharing
> due to the divergence between Squeak & Pharo in dealing with fonts etc.
> Sharing some code will work out ok, I’m sure.
>

Ok, That is something I did not consider.

Do you think that we can share the core system and make only few specific
packages/classes for Squeak/Pharo.
I don't know enough Squeak to evaluate the difference there is today.



>
> >
> > Another question that I asked to me when beginning Phratch: why not just
> using Scratch2.0 ? It is compatible with Scratch1.4.
>
> Dealing in Scratch 2.0 files is something for the future. Not to mention
> that as I understand it Scratch is being re-written yet *again* to move
> away from Flash and towards html5. Or whatever is fashionable and
> not-Smalltalk this week. Meantime a large number of people want a better
> Scratch1.4 system for Pi to use for teaching and whatever - so that’s what
> I have to deliver.
>

Again, we have the same goal.

Jannik


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