Hi
Stef,
I can see that you and the others from Uni Bern have become quite active in enhancing Squeak, is there a certain amount of coordination between you and other "big names" of the squeak community, like
Most of the time yes...
-Andreas Raab (Uni Magdeburg) -Mark Guzdial (GA Tech?)
Mark is out now.
-Impara
Yes we are working with Bert on squeaksource extensions (we use his extensions :)).
or is everyone here rolling their own?
We are paying attention to collect fixes and enh as much as possible and this is working ok. Some people do not want to have changes, other wants to only have their changes, other do not think that cleaning is really worth (and that we are doing random refactoring),.... but all in all I guess that with a bit more communication, monticello use, we are going in the right direction. Our intention is not to develop our own fork (of course this would be so easy to let Squeak abandoned and only focus on our research topics and have fun) but to make sure that the core is improving and that other people can develop their own world and wealth. I hope that in the future we will be able to use Tweak on top of Squeak for example. But for the moment we should get rolling 3.9alpha
and for that we need the help of the community to go to mantis and check the fixes, propose fixes.... So you also can participate to make squeak better.
Not even to mention people like Avi Bryant.
In 3.9 we introduced fastSocketStream.... so seasiders are of real importance for me :)
Günther