2007/4/1, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I have been having some conversations with Nelson Castillo and other Svnwiki users and contributors. Some of us believe that by rewriting Svnwiki entirely in another programming language the number of contributions would increase significantly. A lot of people would like to contribute but they lack the programming skills required to learn Scheme.We are considering rewriting it in either Java or PHP. I'm leaning more towards Java but a very good case for PHP has been made by Arhuaco. We have also considered Python, Ruby and C#. There are more details here: http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net//weblogs/azul/rewriting-svnwiki It should be said that we haven't made up our minds yet. The amount of efforts to rewrite Svnwiki in another language shouldn't be underestimated. However, unless a good case is made for keeping it in Scheme, chances are we will switch to another language. Thoughts?
It's a sad news : every other project starter could say then : hey, look, they turned their code to something else for lack of contribution. I guess it would not bring as many people than using Java but maybe you can consider the following: consider the time of a rewrite and consider the time to make the extant code be well documented, maybe to some part, looking like a (Scheme) tutorial. People like Real World code. About Ruby or Python, am I wrong by thinking that people who know Ruby or Python are a good audience for that kind of document ? For example, in programming.reddit, Haskell, Ruby, Scheme are well represented. I mean that if you switch to Ruby (not Java), you will gain community but the *kind* of programmer will be the same (i.e. functionnal or at least not-main-stream languages lovers). So keeping Scheme might not be so bad to attract them. Thanks, thu _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
