El jue, 09-09-2010 a las 16:01 +0200, Levente Uzonyi escribió: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > > > >> Isn't Grease dialect dependent by essence ? > >> If Pharo and Squeak diverge, then there will naturally be two versions > >> of Grease... > >> However, for these two messages, I think Pharo core should integrate > >> them and align with Squeak. The question is more whether you need to > >> distinguish Grease-Pharo1_1 from Grease-Pharo1_2 ... > > > > Probably else this means that Pharo and any system is bound to die because > > it does not change. > > The rapid changes and no-backwards-compatibility you prefer and advocate > are not essential for a Smalltalk system to "stay alive". Just look at > VSE, it didn't change in the last 10 years, and people are still using it. > In constrast Pharo 1.0 was considered abandonware four months after it's > release, which caused trouble for some users who didn't think that they'll > have to patch their code and rebuild their images to "get" updates/fixes.
Yes but they paid support to remain backwards compatible. If I paid support and not get my system running in new versions then I really would be a fool for paying. Now Squeak/Pharo comes with no warranties, as the license states. So don't complain because when migrating to a new version *you* must adapt your code to the new environment. That is expected and nothing to whine of. If you want that a system runs unchanged for decades, the use a environment that doesn't change for decades. And remain there, as the world lets you behind. > > > Levente > > > > > This is why configurations are important. > > > > Stef > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- Miguel Cobá http://miguel.leugim.com.mx _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
