On Jan 21, 3:30 am, Marc Guillemot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > first I don't want to offend committers (btw: who are you?) who may work > hard on E4X or JS 1.7 support for instance: as I'm not currently > interested in these features, I don't know how active are this areas. My > comment concerns only "normal", current features. > > It seems to me that the Rhino project is currently a bit asleep. It's > not a good news for us (HtmlUnit) but there is no progress on many > issues that matter for us, even when patches are provided. I don't await > that problems get immediately fixed but there is nothing worst than silence. > > Of course we (HtmlUnit again) can fork / patch / adapt the Rhino version > that we use. This is an option that we seriously consider but we would > prefer an healthy Rhino project that accepts the improvements we may > propose because maintaining a patched version requires a lot of > additional work. > > How do you see Rhino's future? > > Cheers and long life to the beast, > Marc. > -- > Blog:http://mguillem.wordpress.com
No offense taken; it's legitimate to judge the activity level on open source projects you depend upon. In this case, I think I've been reasonably responsive. You filed three bugs with patches. I've accepted one and committed it to CVS, I've responded to another and said I want to postpone it until the next release due to the possible impact of the change. The third I have not responded to, although I investigated it. This is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412247. I want to avoid creating a FEATURE flag if I can avoid it; I looked at the SpiderMonkey sources and they look to be ECMA compliant so I don't understand how Firefox behaves the way it does. I need to post to the mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine group to see if I can get any enlightenment there. I'll try to do so as soon as I can find time; today is a holiday in the U.S. HtmlUnit is an important client of Rhino. I'd like to keep you happy. --Norris _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-rhino mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-rhino
