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Pharo3.0
Participants : Marcus Denker [correspondant] , Damien Cassou, Stéphane Ducasse, Esteban Lorenzano, Damien Pollet, Igor Stasenko, Camillo Bruni, Camille Teruel, Clément Bera.
The platform. Pharo is an open-source Smalltalk-inspired language and environment. It provides a platform for innovative development both in industry and research. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent developer tools, and maintained releases, Pharo's goal is to be a platform to build and deploy mission critical applications, while at the same time continue to evolve.
The first stable version, Pharo 1.0, was released in 2010. We are now releasing one new version of Pharo every year, with Pharo3 released in spring 2014. Pharo4 has seen already over 400 incremental updates and is scheduled for early 2015. It should be noted that Pharo, even though already used outside of research, still continues to improve radically.
In November 2012 RMoD launched the Pharo Consortium (http://consortium.pharo.org/ ) and the Pharo Association (http://association.pharo.org ). The consortium has now 14 industrial members, 3 sponsors and 10 academic partners.
RMoD is the main maintainer and coordinator of Pharo.
Here is the self-assessment of the team effort following the grid given at http://www.inria.fr/institut/organisation/instances/commission-d-evaluation .
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(A5) Audience: 5 – Used in many universities for teaching, more than 25 companies.
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(SO3) Software originality : 3 – Pharo offers a classical basis for some aspects (UI). It includes new frameworks and concepts compared to other Smalltalk implementations.
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(SM4) Software Maturity: 4 – Bug tracker, continuous integration, large test suites are in place.
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(EM4) Evolution and Maintenance: 4 – Active user group, consortium and association has been set up.
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(SDL4) Software Distribution and Licensing: 4 – Pharo is licensed under MIT.
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(OC5) Own Contribution: (Design/Architecture) DA-5, (Coding/Debugging) CD-5, (Maintenance/Support) MS-5, (Team/Project Management) TPM-5