Hello everyone,
For a university project I need to write a little about Pharo.
I found the "Pharo vision" document [1] and I am curious about
the actual state of Pharo in comparison with it.
I have seen some things on the mailing list but I would like some
help to gather the state of each goal described in "Pharo vision"
version 1.0.
I made a list with the goals and wrote some of the (little) knowledge I
have about some elements (I also joined it to this mail in case it is not
readable):
Goals -> State
-------------------
1. Creation of the Pharo Consortium -> Created
2. Small kernel & validated packages -> ?
3. A Robust and Extensible System Events -> ?
4. Rewrite of Filesystem/Streams -> ?/XStream?
5. Announcements and Ephemerons -> ?
6. UI Canvas for Zoomable Interfaces -> Bloc?
7. Bootstrap of the Core -> ?
8. Fully parametrized compiler tool chain -> ?
9. Packages as real objects -> ?
10. Package Meta-Data -> PackageManifest?
11. Less Model Clutter and Duplication -> ?
12. Building and Reusing UI Logic -> Spec?
13. New Network Layer -> ?
14. Serializers -> Fuel
15. SystemChangeNotifier replacement -> ?
16. Cleaning Morphic -> Still valid? (asking because of Bloc existance)
17. Everybody should be able to compile VMs -> ?
18. VMs identification and regression testing -> ?
19. One Unified FFI framework -> Created and still being enhanced
20. 64 Bits -> I saw the screenshot on Twitter but what is the state now?
21. New Object Formats -> ?
If some of you know the state of one or many of these project and have the
time to give me some information about it/them, I would be really grateful.
Thanks in advance,
Julien
Links:
[1]:
https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/30434/PharoVision.pdf