On Jun 25, 2013, at 7:49 PM, kilon <thekilon@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
wait a sec , who said PPA solves my problem ? Damien have you tested it ?
PPA did not solve my problem ! It complained about missing a X11 something library and never allowed me to open the image. The problem got away when I used the instructions to install those libraries. If you intended it to be that easy then I advise you to test it on a 64 bit ubuntu without those 32 bit compatibility libraries.
Of course not having a 64 bit version when pretty much any programming language out there that it takes itself seriously (intended to be used professionally ) has one, is not exactly good first impression for pharo or squeak. I am sorry to be so strict and I am downgrading anyone's effort but if you guys are serious about making people taking pharo seriously , you better realise thats its 2013 and we are still stuck with a 32 bit version and we do a buch of none sense to get pharo running.
Maybe the pharo efforts should be diverted towards that direction.
How many languages are solely based on real open-source efforts (without large companies putting money and resources on the table)? Because so far we got 3 years engineers from inria for Pharo. Stef