On 2013-03-20, at 02:58, Victor Stan <victor.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
Why are SmallTalk projects/source code hosted on SS3 Gemstone instead of Git/GitHub?
I'm coming to SmallTalk from the world of web development with open source software, primarily Rails, and I'm very familiar with the amazing social network/source code repository that is GitHub. It is truly an industry defining entity, so many open source projects have been able to harness the ease of use, features and community around Git and GitHub.
At the moment, as I'm trying to learn more about SmallTalk and Pharo especially, (my primary interest in Pharo is to use it as a web development platform), I am a bit shocked, if I may be frank, at the tooling used for source code and open source project management. I see that the popular trend now is to move to SS3/Gemstone, and I appreciate anyone that helps open source development/projects, but I can't see how they can even come close to the functionality of GitHub for source code hosting and OS project management, so I pose the question: is there an effort, why or why not, to start integrating with GitHub and Git for source code management?
I know that historical precent and the tools built into Pharo/SmallTalk images, like Monticello are predecessors to GUI source control, but given the leaps that Git has managed to take, in distributed source code management, how does the existing SmallTalk community feel about it's current tooling in this regard?
there are efforts being made, albeit slow ones, but eventually we will get there. 1. There is dale henrich's fileout format filetree so we can actually run any file-based versioning system ontop: https://github.com/dalehenrich/filetree This is already used in a couple of projects, for instance a regular fileout of the pharo core: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core 2. There is a working (read and write) implementation of a git repository which can be loaded as a FileSystem in the image: FilesystemGit http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~FileSystemGitDev/FileSystem-Git and a working image form here https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/FileSystem-Git/ What is missing? Mostly time to finish the full git-protocol so we can solve the current lack of communication in the implementation. If you are motivated, please join!