> On 17 Aug 2017, at 11:28, jtuc...@objektfabrik.de wrote: > > Herby, > > back when Alan was maintaining Glorp, he took care for portability, he even > maintained the port to VA Smalltalk, IIRC. Niall and Tim(?) at Cincom also > try not to break any dialect in their changes and they also work on keeping > things portable. I am not sure there ever was any (semi-)automated process to > keep ports in sync, my guess would be that that is not the case. > > What I am very sure of is that the ppl at Cincom would welcome any volunteers > to support them in keeping things portable and improve the ecosystem for this. > Is any of you going to be at ESUG?
I will, but I will not maintain Glorp port… I have just too much work :) Esteban > > > Joachim > > > > > Am 17.08.17 um 10:53 schrieb Herby Vojčík: >> Esteban Lorenzano wrote: >>> >>>> On 17 Aug 2017, at 10:35, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:guillermopol...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Just a thought out of thin air: wasn't filetree supposed to provide >>>> common ground for this kind of scenarios? If we shared a single >>>> repository in github that would save us a lot of discussion :P >>> >>> it doesn’t :) >>> while exporting VM-Glorp to github will simplify a lot the process, >>> truth is dialects are so different they cannot talk each other in >>> general, and changes needs to be applied (by hand). >> >> I know it sounds like pipe dream, but I had the impression >> non-dialect-specific parts of Glorp (that is, most of it) is (was?) >> deliberately written in subset of Smalltalk (not ifNotNil: but isNil >> ifFalse: etc.) that it aimed to actually _be_ portable. >> >> That part at least (and the high-level part with descriptors, mappings, >> queries, glorpexpressions etc. is such) would be nice to actually be generic >> enough to be "any Smalltalk out there". >> >> Herby >> >>> but… having a github mirror to be able to diff properly is a good thing. >>> >>> Esteban >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuc...@objektfabrik.de > Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de > D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com > Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1 > >
