I agree, if I had a good reason I would split MochiKit up into smaller components that built on top of jQuery and perhaps backbone and/or underscore. I only have direct experience with jQuery but I've heard good things from smart people about backbone and underscore. jQuery is a fine library for DOM stuff but it really just doesn't do much of the more interesting stuff that MochiKit has done for years.
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Per Cederberg <p...@percederberg.net> wrote: > Agreed. Nowadays I'm also in maintenance-only-mode with respect to > MochiKit. Meaning that I'll only address critical bugs or merge > well-documented & tested patches. The MochiKit.Text module and version > 1.5 won't progress further unless someone else steps up to do the > work. > > That said, I'm still using MochiKit where it makes sense. Preferably > in conjunction with jQuery. Would be nice to eventually package up > MochiKit into separate pieces that glue better into jQuery in some > ways. But the custom packaging solution we have right now also allows > to strip out some obvious duplicated stuff... > > Cheers, > > /Per > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 20:45, Bob Ippolito <b...@redivi.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM, machineghost <machinegh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> So, given that: >>> >>> * There hasn't been a blog post on the website in ... ever (according >>> to the front of the site; in reality there was a post back in 2008) >>> * There hasn't been a release since 2008 >>> * This mailing list gets a post (with no response) once every other >>> month or so, if that >>> * MochiKit is less popular than random frameworks I've never heard of >>> (xajax? what's that?) by a factor of six (http://www.readwriteweb.com/ >>> hack/2011/08/javascript-framework-popularit.php) >>> >>> it really seems like MochiKit is a dead project, or at best a zombie >>> project. Is that accurate? I mean, obviously people currently using >>> it aren't going to stop, but is new development, promotion of the >>> framework, improvement of the website/docs/etc. dead? >> >> Zombie sounds about accurate to me, we still use it but it's done what >> we've needed it to do for quite a few years so we haven't bothered to >> make any changes to it. We don't have a lot of incentive to encourage >> other people to use it, especially at this point. If someone is >> interested in making improvements they're more than welcome to do so, >> it's all pretty much github based these days so accepting pull >> requests, adding contributors and updating the site is very easy. >> >> -bob >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MochiKit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mochikit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MochiKit" group. > To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mochikit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mochikit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en.
