Thank's Dale and Esteban for explanation 2014-11-30 18:58 GMT+03:00 Dale Henrichs <dale.henri...@gemtalksystems.com>:
> Actually, SS3 and smalltalkhub appeared about the same time. Tobias Pape > had been slowly improving the GemStone version of SqueakSource3 and I got > tired of waiting 2-3 days for SqueakSource to come back from a crash, so I > pushed SS3 up as an Alpha to get something up that was more stable than > SqueakSource. About the same time, SmalltalkHub was made available and I > didn't want to compete with SmalltalkHub and at the time it seemed to have > potential, so I backed off on my plans to go beyond the Alpha release of > SS3. There were several sets of known bugs and performance issues ... but > it was and still is Alpha and was never intended to go into production. > > After several months of development, SmalltalkHub had not quite made it to > be production ready and Stef asked me to start backing up SS3 so that it > could be used for production apps ... I reluctantly agreed, because at the > time SqueakSource was very unstable and something was needed ... > > Unfortunately the time window for me to have time to devote time to SS3 > had passed and Tobias was busy with his work as well. > > And it took longer than originally anticipated for SmalltalkHub to be > ready for prime time. > > Tobias has continued to work on the SqueakSource3 code base and bring it > way beyond the Alpha version that is in production. The folks at Hasso > Plattner Institute are using Tobias' SqueakSource3 in production for their > Smalltalk repos. > > But it seemed to not be worth the effort to try to compete with > SmalltalkHub ... the original intent of SS3 being brought into production > was to be a stopgap measure until SmalltalkHub was ready... > > Today, I am using GitHub for all of my projects ([1], [2], [3], and [4]) > so again I just don't have the time to devote to SS3 to incorporate the > improvements that Tobias has had (for years now) .... > > Neither SqueakSource3 nor SmalltalkHub comes close to the collaborative > feature set of GitHub and I personally would rather devote my own time and > effort to new Smalltalk projects than trying to duplicate GitHub in > Smalltalk. > > We continue to host SS3, with all of its Alpha warts because is very > stable and a number of folks use it on a daily basis... > > Dale > > [1] https://github.com/GsDevKit > [2] https://github.com/glassdb > [3] https://github.com/dalehenrich > [4] https://github.com/CampSmalltalk > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> 2014-11-27 18:01 GMT+03:00 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>: >> >>> btw… historic reference: sthub was never intended to be there for stay. >>> I remember talking about it with Nico and Stef, more than two years ago, >>> before sthub came online, and our conclusion at the time was: “yes, the >>> future it will be git, but until we get there, let’s put sthub online >>> because sqsource cannot handle more projects" >> >> >> And why you not choose squeaksource3 which maintained by gemstone team >> and includes all features from old squeaksource? Why you instead develop >> sthub if you not believe in it? >> >> >> >
