It appears that Rob Withers, the primary motivator of Squeak-E progress, has undergone some kind of lifestyle change. He lives and works in Seattle, where I live, and has never bothered to discuss with me or other local Squeakers or Smalltalkers his Squeak-E work. In fact, I had forgotten that he lived in town at all. So I was surprised, just a couple of weeks ago, I saw (and bought a lot of) his CS and Smalltalk books at a used-bookstore that is a few blocks from my house. I knew they were his because there were receipts in them that he had signed, and emails from him.
I sent him an email asking him how he's doing and what he plans to do or not do, but haven't received a response. It appears that Squeak-E has been orphaned, and that whoever is interested should just start making new changes and using Monticello to manage it (much of the code is on SqueakSource).
http://www.squeaksource.com/squeakelib.html
I notice that he HAS made some changes recently (see the RSS page). I really just don't know what's going on. A mutual friend of ours has told me he will ask him, and I will follow up if anything is discovered.
On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Mariano Montone wrote:
Hello
I want to know what's the state of Squeak-E. I have already seen the wiki and there's some code, but I have to recompile the vm. Does anyone have or knows how to get a precompiled Squeak-E VM + Image (I'm working on Windows right now). Besides, the mailing list seems to be silent. What happend to the project?
Thanks, Mariano
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