On 22 May 2013 15:25, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@free.fr> wrote:
There IS a reason pharo forked from squeak...
I'm not pursuing this thread: it's my understanding that the fork was largely political, and personal, and that's as far as I'm going to talk about it.
Reducing Pharo to a personal decision is ridiculous but you can believe it if you want. Then I do not know what is politic. Pharo exists to create a sustainable eco system where companies can make money and wealth/knowledge/innovation can expand. We started Pharo because we could not do it with Squeak. No more no less.
I believe the things I do regarding the fork because of personal conversations with people close to the decision.
If you ask me, we should have started to do Pharo way before because we all lost energy for nothing. If I should redo it I would.
That may be so. Squeak in 2013 is not the same community as Squeak in 2007/2008 (and not just because most of the community moved to Pharo). frank