on 6/25/03 4:55 PM Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > >>I think that the option of "active and direct" collaboration between >>Cocoon and Rhino would be better for both. It might increase their >>community, create a solid political link (that today is missing), give >>us a meritocratic control on the platform (cocoon is probably going to >>become one of the most important rhino customers). >> >>So, it might be good to start talking to them *before* we even attempt >>to do anything from a code perspective, maybe they have ideas on how to >>solve things easily or maybe even converge to a common point. > > > Hmmm... don't forget that this is Open Source (oh well, I bet you know > that ;-)) and as NKB loves to say, discussions get forgotten, just code > remains. :-) > > I would say then that it would be nice to go to the Rhino community with > suggestions *and* some code. I have been looking at it more thouroughly > and as of now I think that the real problem is not really Rhino missing > continuations, but Rhino being coded not to be extensible: most classes > we need to extend are final, and members we need access to are private. > So far Cristopher and I went quite the "easy" way, changing accesses and > declarations just when needed, but it won't take a huge effort to > refactor the few classes we need in order (adding getter/setters and the > like) to make them really extensible. > > Once this is done, the continuation-specific code might happily live in > the Cocoon CVS as a Rhino extension if the Mozilla community is not > willing to accept it (and actually I don't really see a real reason for > them to include it ATM since Cocoon would be the only customer for that) > and we might control it with Gump guarding against back-incompatible > changes. > > This will take no more than a few hours of (boring) coding, and I'm > willing undertake the effort if it sounds reasonable to us all, and > produce a first working extensible JavaScript interpreter that might be > committed in Rhino. Meanwhile, we can start approaching the Rhino guys > and see what they think aboout it. > > How does it sound?
I love the incremental approach. +1 -- Stefano.
