Benoît, Stop this non-sense, please.
For somebody, intelligent, with decades experience in using some Smalltalk implementation, who has been on this list for years, you have a very hard time reading and understanding what is being said, and you know it. The whole reason Pharo exists is to break free from the constraints of other people's ideas of what Smalltalk is and should remain to be. We don't want that, it is a simple as that. We will help and support anybody doing anything with Pharo, as we have always done. In open source, you cannot go some mailing list and tell people what should be done and endlessly discuss about that: just do it yourself. Sven > On 6 Feb 2020, at 10:00, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users > <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > From: Benoit St-Jean <bstj...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] About "it's not pharo but smalltalk" > Date: 6 February 2020 at 10:00:04 GMT+1 > To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > > > Then I have a question... and I'm not being sarcastic here! > > As Pharo users, are we allowed to suggest ideas from other environments, even > other languages or projects? > > If I think we should implement something similar to VisualWork's MemoryPolicy > in Pharo, where should I discuss that? > > If I see package XYZ in Python that I think would be worth porting to Pharo, > where should I discuss that? > > If there are features in the Atom editor that are worth considering & cool > for Pharo, where should I discuss that? > > If I have ideas/places/means to promote Pharo or give it exposure, where > should I discuss that? > > If VisualAge has a nice config map to interface MQSeries and I'd like to know > if a port to Pharo would interest anyone, where should I discuss that? > > If I want to know if there's any interest to develop a native DB2 database > driver, should I discuss it here ? From what I've read, the answer is NO. > Do you really think that if I post "hey guys, we should really port that to > Pharo" on comp.databases.ibm-db2, it will draw any attention from Pharoers ? > This is getting ridiculous! > > I mean, are we limited to only discuss about what's in the Pharo image? Yeah, > the Collection hierarchy is cool but are we gonna talk about that for the > next 5 years? As a Pharo USER, I am not limited to what's in the image : > Pharo interfaces with lots of things on the outside. If we can't discuss > about what's outside of the image and that could improve Pharo > (library-wise), tell me where I can do so! > > If I understand correctly, we can't talk about anything that is not 100% > Pharo on pharo-dev, pharo-users and lse-pharo4pharo, is that it ?!?!?!? > What's left for the "outside world" ? > > P.S. I'm not saying that this mailing list should be a catch-all place where > we can discuss about baseball, fishing, cars, music, chess, C# and politics. > There has to be a way to sometimes discuss about stuff that is "outside" of > Pharo but that could help us improve it! > > On 2020-02-06 03:21, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: >> Then let it phrase it like this: this list is not to talk about the whole >> Smalltalk universe but this particular implementation. > > -- > ----------------- > Benoît St-Jean > Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean > Twitter: @BenLeChialeux > Pinterest: benoitstjean > Instagram: Chef_Benito > IRC: lamneth > GitHub: bstjean > Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com > "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) > > > >
