On 3 November 2011 19:41, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Hello!
One thing is not clear to me. How is Pharo related to standard Squeak? I know Pharo is a fork with its own mission, but is the development related? Do fixes in Pharo propagate upstream to Squeak? Is Squeak even considered "upstream"? Do fixes in Squeak propagate into Pharo? Automatically or manually? Or have they started being developed completely independently from some point in time?
We do not really look at squeak. No time for that. Now if people having time mentioned that we have an interesting fix then we will be inclined to include it in pharo.
Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "we" - "we" as an Official Pharo Official, sure, I can understand - rightly so - that you're concentrating on what Pharo needs. "We" as a vocal subcommunity of Pharo also work with Squeak, trying to pull the two codebases back together. And that's a good thing, that there are both forces. Pharo the Official Direction is cutting new ground in a particular direction, and the Pharo+Squeak folk try to make sure that there isn't too much duplication of effort. There are few enough Smalltalkers in the two communities: we ought to try leverage off each other as much as we can. frank
Let me restate our vision and why we decided to make Pharo. Our goal and vision behind Pharo is to twofold:     - make sure that people can make money and create their own wealth in Smalltalk. Provide the best environment we can for that (and this is not easy)     This is really important for us. A part of the team here is working on setting up a company around tools build on top of Pharo.     We are really happy when we hear that people are using Pharo for making business (net style, nextPlan, b9, pinesoft)â¦.     This is really great.
    - bring Smalltalk to the next level:         - first class variables         - small core         - may be new mop         - powerful tools and abstractions     The idea is to have a solid infrastructure to be able to invent the next generation smalltalkish system because smalltalk lacks a lot and innovation stopped a while ago.         (real sandboxing, real minimal kernel with pluggable uiâ¦)
It will take time but we will get there.
Stef