[self-interest] [Ann][Quack] Self 4.5.0 ("Mallard") released

[Russell Allen]

We need two things for that to work:
(1) Someone to do the work
(2) Money to pay them

(1) is more of a hurdle than might be expected. People who could rewrite the VM be 64 bit are very few and far between and we can't afford Lars Bak :)

If someone is willing and competent to do one of these tasks then a bounty could be good.

Russell

On 14 Jan 2014, at 10:32 am, David Harris <dpharris at telus.net> wrote:

> What about using bounties?
> 
> On 1/13/14, Chris Double <chris.double at double.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> My favourite comment from Reddit, which we should take to heart:
> >>
> >> "Interesting, it looks like some variant of Smalltalk. Hopefully we'll see
> >> more innovation in OOP."
> >
> > It was interesting to see the number of people who hadn't heard of
> > Self and didn't know its place in language history!
> >
> > It would be good to have a list of tasks that interested people could
> > attack. Maybe this could be done in github issue's with a special tag
> > and syndicated to the website? Some big ticket items might be:
> >
> > 1) An ARM backend
> > 2) 64-bit support
> > 3) Factor out screen sharing to not rely on X11
> > 4) Linux font support
> > 5) Windows support
> >
> > --
> > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz
> >
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> >
> > Yahoo Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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