I think that
lot of the problems will be resolved with SmallWiki 2.
But it is also important to provide feedback to lukas and others. So
can you be more precise on the problems and how you would solve them?
One thing that really bugs me though is the fact
that Smallwiki is
maintained in VW. As a company we can not afford to buy VW just to
run Smallwiki
I will ask james about that. James what is the status of cincom on
that? Should a company running a wiki pay for VW? I think that this
would be a mistake because this could show how stable is the VM. But
just let us know.
Well, the answer depends on usage - academic/non-commercial usage is
free. If a company wants to run VW on a server for internal use, then
they would need a license. However, a commercial VW license isn't
that expensive for such usage
How much?
Which means that we may stop to develop smallwiki on VW then. I think
that this is the next logical consequence.
I do not understand then what is the situation for bottom feeder, it is
because you pay a license that you can offer it for free? Because
Smallwiki is exactly in the same situation as bottomFeeder.
Should I pay a license to use bottomFeeder if I'm working in a company
and using your tool during my working time?
Does it mean that if I want that my users can use a tool that I'm
developing for free that I have to pay a license? I think that you are
simply killing the use of VW for us then.
There is also a really vicious side-effect for all the tools that we
are developing in open-source. A programmer in a company using Moose
(which is open-source) would have to pay. So it seems that developing
open-source and VW are incompatible. To bad we will have to learn from
that sad news.
I think that you are doing a mistake but I cannot change it so we will
have to adapt ourselves.
>> and instead of spending some of the time I
don't have ;-) on
>> porting, I would love to be able to invest that time into
>> development efforts directly.
>> Is there any chance you guys could be persuaded to switch to Squeak?
>
> Stef