Hehe, that (or similar) was allways on my mind. In the past I started a project I named SDA (Smalltalk Developer Assistant) focused on lot of things that may be shortened as "Code Generation" :) as Genexus does. One more time, the lack of free time and the need of focus the time on payed projects did their work and the project is almost abandoned....but I agree that a tool that could do somethings automagically would help in 2 areas: 1. Attracting more people, and 2. Make the life of current Smalltalkers a bit more easy :) Germán. 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?
I would prefer: What kind of powerful task should be made easy out of the box ? - connect to a legacy MySQL database, send SQL requests and manipulate results - describe relations (a Library has many Books and Subscribers) -> generate -> Seaside (and/or Iliad or desktop) / view / controllers / models / database automatically setup. Plug in custom relations. - build an UI and create custom widgets. - deploy desktop and/or web app. and showcases + documentation. So Pharo can attracts new developpers who can say "wooww, so easy !". More developpers -> more business needs -> more contributions. Laurent
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