[squeak-dev] Sophie 2.0 ported to Java. Why?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Nov 5 15:33:41 UTC 2009
On 05.11.2009, at 00:25, John M McIntosh wrote:
>
> On 2009-11-04, at 2:01 PM, alesch wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi List:
>>
>> Does anyone know why Sophie is being ported to Java?
>> In http://sophie2.org/trac/wiki/AboutPage this page , they mention
>> Astea
>> Solutions and their contributed Java codebase...
>
> You'll find questions and reasons via
> http://ask.slashdot.org/story/08/10/03/1547256/How-To-Kill-an-Open-Source-Project-With-New-Funding?art_pos=1
In particular, from
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=984735&cid=25252253
"Unfortunately, despite a lot of interest among individual faculty and
a few small programs, the widespread institutional adoption necessary
to form a viable Sophie 1.0 sustaining community was not happening -
due in large part, our inquiries suggested, to lack of interest in
supporting an enterprise software application written in Squeak. In
the community whose support was most essential to Sophie's survival,
everyone wanted a language that was more widely known and used; the
largest single group of potential adopters wanted Java [...] The
Squeak contractors were understandably unhappy about the move to Java,
both because they lost the contract and because they believe in Squeak
and want to see it used more widely. We have the greatest respect for
their capabilities and their enthusiasm for their community, but our
responsibilities to our own institutions, our community, and Mellon
require us to give Sophie the greatest possible chance of success."
- Bert -
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