Hi guys, I believe this mail exchange belongs to the Pharo and not to the Smallwiki mailing list :). Cheers, Doru On 5 May 2009, at 09:33, stéphane ducasse wrote:
Apparently there is no value in what we are doing: removing etoy, removing a lot of ***SHIT*** from squeak, fixing tons of bugs (the bug archives is full of fixed bugs and fixes problems), writing more tests, cleaning a HUGE spaghetti mess (preferences....). Utilities is one of this crap. And of course Author could be made a bit better. Of course there is no preference to avoid to warn on deprecated call!
Apparently you only do stuff right. Perfect! But we will do it our way. Period.
May be you should put your code under GPL or something like that we will not even thing that we should have a look at it.
What we are doing is totally useless for you. Excellent! Continue to bark if this helps you.
Stef
On May 4, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Keith Hodges wrote:
John M McIntosh wrote:
On 4-May-09, at 6:10 AM, Keith Hodges wrote:
I don't use pharo myself. Goodness knows why they break things as simple as author initials.
Keith
Er because of the re-licensing of the squeak code base and the discovery that using JUST initials made the chore very difficult to determine who wrote the code. So they enforce names now
Thats not my point my point is that they broke the code.
The way forward is to engineer a solution, not just hack something in that breaks what everyone has already.
One could propose a new loadable Author package that handles everything and publish that for everyone that cares to use it, rather than forcing code to break and all manner of nightmares managing two streams per package.
since Pharo has a more business target and the first question those folks ask, what's the license and code ownership like? I use Squeak for Business, and I will continue to do so. The whole approach behind pharo is flawed because it is dedicated to making more work for me the coder of stuff that is for all. This is one instance where I feel entirely justified in saying I told you so.
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