On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Nick Ager wrote:
2010/8/3 laurent laffont <laurent.laffont@gmail.com> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote: Hi guys
with the experience around the XMLRPC project, ESUG wants to change strategy to help growing business at the technical level. So what are the key areas where you think that effort should be supported to help you making business in smalltalk?
Libraries
Make connecting to C libraries/Java libraries as plainless as possible. Make discovery of available Smalltalk libraries less painful: * There's little or no differentiation on squeaksource between great, well-tested reliable code, and "my first Smalltalk project"
yes we will have to address that and I believe that it should go via metacello
* Be great if ESUG sponsored the infrastructure for something like Apache commons (http://commons.apache.org/) for Smalltalk projects. They have three designations: 1) Commons Proper - repository of reusable components 2) Commons Sandbox - workspace for component development 3) Repository of sandbox components that are currently inactive
good idea. Now inactive does not mean sandboxed :) but yes we should have a categorisation of the projects. We should be able to put that in place with bibliocello.
* This would aid in the discovery of projects. * Ideally projects in the equivalent to "commons proper" would be part of a CI system like Lukas' Hudson setup (http://hudson.lukas-renggli.ch/)
HTH
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