Interop with Squeak forks

Hello Sean,

Sean wrote:

My dream for a long time was for Squeak and Pharo to reunite, with Pharo as a lean, mean base system, and Squeak implementing/porting all the amazing projects on top, like some of the ones I listed above. I realise that this is extremely unlikely especially for political reasons, but since you asked! ;-)

Keith here, I read your comments on the survey with interest and a little sadness, since this need to promote interoperability between squeak forks was identified way back in the Pharo 1.0 days. I had previously asserted that it was the squeak team’s responsibility, as the parent of several children to inspire unification and to adopt a development approach that would automatically help being things together more.

Back then I felt this was needed particularly for those of us who were interested in developing libraries or applications that would be useful to all branches. I am slowly looking through my old code (squeak 3.9-4.0) era, so see what can be resuscitated . On my travels I found a couple of my old videos from 2010.

This video shows off “grow”, a command line tool for invoking and building images based on the different forks. I’ll see if it still works!

https://vimeo.com/10164721

This second video shows off Sake-Packages.

https://vimeo.com/5434330

Looking back and reading the old Sake docs I am so impressed!

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5953

The way forward for interoperability is a suite of simple but powerful tools that are independent of GUI and of each fork. I had developed a few, and will see about breathing some new life into them over the next couple of weeks.

regards to all

Keith