me too :) Adrian
On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:05 , Hernan Wilkinson wrote: > I joined Lukas thanks... although I was not in that dinner!!! :-) > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Lukas Renggli <reng...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you John for the excellent Mac VMs in the past. >> >> Thank you Esteban for the excellent Mac VMs in the future; and for the >> dinner in Palermo Hollywood last week :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Lukas >> >> On 21 November 2010 22:42, John M McIntosh >> <john...@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote: >>> Ten years back I took over the role of maintaining the Macintosh VM from >> John Maloney. Dan Ingalls wrote a letter of responsibility for me, which I >> accepted and have strived to carry forward. >>> >>> But it's time to assume a different role and I have asked Esteban >> Lorenzano to take over the build responsibility. Some of you know him >> already from his role in building Mars for Squeak, his presentations at ESUG >> conferences, and the awards he has won for his technical innovations. >>> >>> It's been a fun decade & three month, lots of versions were created, >> Apple unlike other other OS providers has driven lots of change and >> excitement, now they look forward to an OS-X app store, so it's time for >> someone new and eager to figure out how to address that. Over that decade >> we've moved from 68040 based machines, thru PowerPC to MacIntel, and from >> OS-9 thru 7 generations of OS-X. >>> >>> On Jan 1st 2011 (or earlier) I will no longer do builds or officially >> support the macintosh VM, I will of course help Esteban thru any >> difficulties in the migration of responsibilities, and I'll forward that >> letter from Dan, it's steeped with responsibility, a bit of honour, >> expectations of hours (decades?) of work, and I assure Esteban a great >> journey. Today for Esteban I consolidated folders of Squeak VM build >> memories which came to nearly 6GB of stuff, fortunately most of it is >> obsolete because of the Cocoa os-x V5 rewrite. >>> >>> I thank the community for bearing with me for the good times and the >> rough times as I fought the daemons of operating system change, no doubt >> I'll watch how things progress, yet the responsibility for what happens will >> lie elsewhere. >>> >>> Some close friends have asked am I giving up Squeak & Smalltalk? No it's >> just a change of pace, I'll be around to poke at interesting issues, and at >> this time I welcome any paid consulting (Smalltalk or iOS), email me if you >> have leads... >>> >>> Over the years, Viewpoints Research Institute, ESUG and others have >> provide some funding for this work, I thank them for their contributions. >>> >>> Any message of thanks should be send to my wife of 27 years >> corde...@mac.com who has diligently support my contributions to the >> Smalltalk community and as a non computer person always wondered why? For >> Sophie we had a saying: "For the betterment of mankind" . For the folks who >> worked on Smalltalk, Sophie, and the OLPC they know why we do this. >>> >>> To the other VM maintainers I thank them for them for the trust that I >> would do the right thing, so for Squeak onward we go.... >>> >>> - >>> >> =========================================================================== >>> John M. McIntosh <john...@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: >> squeaker68882 >>> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com >>> >> =========================================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lukas Renggli >> www.lukas-renggli.ch >> >> > > > -- > *Hernán Wilkinson > Agile Software Development, Teaching & Coaching > Mobile: +54 - 911 - 4470 - 7207 > email: hernan.wilkin...@10pines.com > site: http://www.10Pines.com <http://www.10pines.com/>*
