Hi Peter,

I'm intrigued. However, I'd like to see the source code before I  
commit... Is that possible?


On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Peter Seibel wrote:

>
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Peter Seibel wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Peter K.Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Having put up a couple of pages on the wiki, I can't help but ask if
>>> the Kiwi sources have been released?
>>
>> Not that I know of. According to <http://wiki.alu.org/Kiwi>:
>>
>>    We plan to publically release the Kiwi source code early next  
>> year,
>>    after we tidy it up and write internal documentation.
>>
>> I believe that was written in 2005 so it should be soon. Of the folks
>> listed on that page, I believe Daniel Finster and Carl Shapiro are
>> the main authors of Kiwi itself so if you want to know more you
>> should contact them. There's also some more about what is required
>> for a release on:
>>
>>    <http://wiki.alu.org/Discuss:Kiwi>
>>
>> Given our dependence on it, I think it would be a fine Gardeners
>> project to work on Kiwi and extend it in ways that suit our needs, if
>> we can get Daniel and Carl to release to public sight. I know Carl
>> from the ALU board so I'll ping him about it.
>
> So, I have received a drop of the Kiwi source code so if there are
> folks who are interested, we could probably start hacking on it.
> Then, of course, there's the issue of how we get patches we make
> incorporated into the ALU Wiki. So there's probably another Gardener
> project: finding a couple folks to volunteer to maintain the ALU
> Wiki. I'm pretty sure the ALU folks would be happy to have such
> volunteers and would give them appropriate access to do their job.
>
> -Peter
>
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