Henrik
You are really really a ***poor*** guy. I'm really sorry for you and for this list. I cannot let you piss on my feet (even if they are waterproofed).
If you recall, he took on the role as Official Machiavellian Critic of the module system the moment the other proposal from Joseph P.--his friend--was turned down by this community. You can go back in the archives to verify this. Ever since then, he has had this as a personal mission. In the beginning I didn't realize the personal connection and so I fell for it too. You'd wish he'd get over it.
But what the people around may not know is that we invite you to visit us for 4 days (unfortunately someone decided to die in my family, this should be a sign) and that you slept at my place while my wife went to the funeral 1200 km away. We tried with the group to understand the modules and see how to help.
Sure this does not count for you.
He is determined to sow spite into the Squeak community; comes on the list every couple of months and tells everyone to go to hell; once it was because the list was a chat room, then it was "everyone stop talking and do it". Like when he said he would become a harvester, did it once (there had to be patches released afterwards to fix the worst mistakes in there)
And then, did I not refactor the fileList completely, and then what is the point I tried to understand the problem harvester encountered. I read much more code that I signed. I ported Ginsu to 3.1 to help.
and then quit. That's "stop talking and do something" applied to onself, indeed. Then he slagged everyone off for not writing unit tests for all the code they post; on the rare instance when he posts something himself there aren't always tests with the code, same thing again. I also recall how he flamed another French guy who made his first post on the list.
Check all of these in the archives if you don't believe me.
May be I talk too much. May be I'm frustrated to see Squeak not moving faster.
Stef, if you are so busy working for your rent as you always excuse yourself, then why don't you also spare use these flaming posts? Surely they take time too to write. They don't exactly help Squeak. As in "stop talking and do something".
Henrik
I'm sad for you in fact. Apparently you do not know what means not having a secure place and having two small kids.
But sure you asked all the brillant guys working with you to work on squeak, you are proposing new lectures on Smalltalk, writing articles on Squeak, pushing books on Squeak towards editor, organizing a conference on Smalltalk, organizing free books distribution to universities, collecting a free Smalltalk cds, scanning out printed book to give to the community, writing a book for novices,....
Everybody knows that you do that daily.
I hope that you feel better now.
At least you should respect people that hosted you. Few people eat at my place, and fewer sleep in my beds. Apparently you were not appreciating it.
Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse@iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes