Re: Problem building Io with the addons

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:30:46 +0100
Jan-Paul Bultmann <[email protected]> wrote:


> On 19.02.2012, at 21:48, Duke Normandin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:24:51 +0100
> > Jan-Paul Bultmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On a scale from 1 - 10, what do you suppose the probability of
> > these issues being fixed anytime soon? :)
> > 
> > > Probably nothing, there are parts of the main Io
> > > implementation that are simply broken. Cheers
> > > 
> > > On 19.02.2012, at 21:05, Duke Normandin <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:15:21 -0500
> > > > gatesphere <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Congrats, and enjoy Io :)
> > > > > -->Jake
> > > > 
> > > > I'll defer basking in the "congrats" until I can figure
> > > > what I'm doing wrong! :)
> > > > -- 
> > > > Duke
> > > > 
> > 
> Depends, some of us are currently working on an alternative Io
> implementation to address a lot of these issues. For the mainline
> I can't make a proper estimate, but without more contributors for
> this huge huge code base it's looking dim IMHO.
> 

I suppose a person would have to be an exceptional C hacker to make
any sort of valid contribution towards Io or its alternative?