I would for sure second that. I am using COM for dealing with this thing: http://www.sparxsystems.com/ about all day long a couple days a week. Bridging this with Roassal/Moose for additional visualisations would be super (I am going to look at that one in the coming weeks to help with the overall quality assessment of a quite large model). Phil On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
2016-10-02 10:57 GMT-03:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com>:
By the way I am all for COM for Pharo, the issue is that 2/3 of our community are MacOS and Linux users , I dont even remember the last time we had a Windows only topic in the mailing list. Modern languages generally avoid using OS specific libraries, the last exceptions be C# and Swift and C# definetly looks like it will be fully cross platform soon enough (it already is because of Mono).
I wouldn't state such affirmations without a proper surveying.
My latest survey related with RDBMS support [1] showed that the users of Windows are on par with the users of MacOS.
I am a Windows user, who runs most of the Pharo images inside Linux VMs not because I don't want to run them in Windows, but because the current support of Windows is somewhat limited.
Having COM support for Pharo in a Windows environment would be a big enabler to a lot of current users of Smalltalk that don't use Pharo.
Esteban A. Maringolo
[1] https://medium.com/@emaringolo/pharo-rdbms-support-survey-results- 9c8f640878db#.ym049enul