Stéphane Ducasse wrote
this is fun that you shoot on us
I guess you really know I'm not shooting at anyone, and you don't need to react negatively. I stand by my comments, both praise and (hopefully insightful and constructive) criticism, and welcome any debate on the actual points.
while you were never able to come and present your products at ESUG while I'm sure that it would have helped the community.
You've been good at asking me to come over the years - well done! As I've replied each time, I don't like travel, and I have to do a lot of it for our business. I've presented MetaEdit+ at the Cincom Smalltalk conference in Frankfurt, and many times at OOPSLA and ECOOP. Presenting at those places has made commercial sense; presenting at ESUG hasn't seemed to - mostly because the attendees aren't potential customers. That's just the way companies make decisions.
as I already told you, I imagine that Smalltalk developers do not leave in a bubble with only Smalltalk teams and products and they can probably push your product to Java people because they know that this is in Smalltalk. But I can understand that you do not like to travel since I do not like that either. Now this is up to you to present or not MetaEdit+ at ESUG. Stef