On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bart Gauquie wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've been using Squeak before, now I'm using Pharo. Its still 'hobby' usage.
> However, on my firm, we have a lot of working groups in which we investigate
> new technologies. We mainly use Java / .Net.
> I've initiated a working group around Smalltalk/Seaside. And chose Pharo as a
> smalltalk platform/dialect, mainly because its free and adaptable. I'm a fan
> of it, but my colleagues of it have some doubts about it. I know that its not
> finished yet, and that a lot of improvements are ongoing. The main
> 'complaint' about Pharo is that the environment is not stable. In a lot of
> the tools you get exceptions, errors, it breaks something, stuff like that.
> Thats a shame off course. I expect in an environment that everything just
> works. We are using Eclipse in our day to day work; nowadays, Eclipse is
> quite fast and is reliable. Pharo is more or less fast enough, but still not
> reliable. There are too much 'dead links', messageNotUnderStoods I mean. For
> instance on latests browse package is not working on the Class Browser. On
> the Pharo 1.0 branch, there are also dead links here and there.
>
1.1 can not be stable. How on earth can you do anything if even the bleading
edge developement-only release can not move?
Do *not* use 1.1 if you are not willing to live with a bug *and* are willing to
help fixing it.
If you see bugs in 1.0, How Can We Fix them if they are not reported?
Marcus
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