> > > "We started late. We had tools reasonably suited for our needs which we were comfortable with. I think/hope that once libgit is "released" in Pharo and the wider community becomes more familiar with it, it stimulates us to develop tools to rival the others. Tools that non-Smalltalkers also find useful, and when they want to add a feature, they are motivated to learn Pharo. I think this is a small additional benefit of tighter integration of git in Pharo.
cheers -ben" Even if Smalltalkhub improves and solves these problems, Github will still run circles around it. Sure some pharoers want to stick inside the image because they want to avoid the pain to learn something new or because hey aspire of all inclusive smalltalk enviroment. But I dont want to be like the kid that press his face on the windows of a candy store, salivating for the candy I cannot have. There is a lot of cool technology around us really great and it will be a pity if Pharo does not take advantage of it. Git and Github is only a small part of the story. My belief and this is a belief I put in practice with my project Ephestos is that Pharo can be an excellent candidate as a glue enviroment , an enviroment that can bring all modern very powerful technologies together. I find a pharo enviroment that allows me to control the outside software with ease far more tempting than a Pharo enviroment that allow me to control with ease only itself. For me this is also what made Python so popular as a language. We all have seen the 80s drawing with the baloon leaving the island but even in 2014 even Pharo feels like an island some times. Fortunately this changes and we see more and more a more modern smalltalk and a more modern Pharo. I believe in Pharo and in its success and this is why I love contribute to it.
