On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:32:46PM -0400, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > brain dump, and probably not politically correct. oh, well. > > Scott Sanders wrote: > > The only thing I actually worry about is getting too many j-c'ers > > over here, and not having an equivalent viewpoint from the non-java > > side. If the c/perl/python/yal side is not represented here, we > > may have the same amount of 'brokeness' that exists in j-c today > > in some people's minds. > > [perl i think is a non-starter here because of cpan. :-)] > greg is a rabid python person;
You got that right :-) Yes, the Python aspect will be well-represented. In fact, I already have modules "in the wings" that I have never been able to donate to the ASF simply because they didn't have a home. Now... oh yah! Here are several items (all can be found in the ViewCVS distro) that I can think of which make sense (to me) as part of Apache Commons: * ezt.py -- a easy little templating system * vclib -- a package for working with different version control systems * rcsparse -- a package for parsing CVS/RCS ,v files If I went scrounging, I could probably find other interesting bits, but those modules are actually quite useful components. The ezt module, in particular, I've been using in all my CGI apps recently. I would also like to add ViewCVS, but that is an application, so I don't see how it can be construed as matching the goals of Commons. It also doesn't have any other home at the ASF, so it'll just sit where it is... Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
