2010/8/3 laurent laffont <laurent.laffont@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM, St�phane 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"

��* 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

��* 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

Nick�