On Feb 23, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote:
Aside from actual features in the app itself, I think it would be nice to have a little more infrastructure around the project. I don't want to make things too complex, but having trac, for instance, would be nice. Also, it would be nice to see the actual changes in the commit emails rather than just a list of the files that have changed. I don't know what's available for subversion regarding this, but for CVS, I've used CVSSpam ( http://www.badgers- in-foil.co.uk/projects/cvsspam/ ) which provides really nicely formatted emails.
One thing that I've seen that works rather well is a system that updates an RSS feed with CVS information.
I'd be willing to look into it (if this is of interest), but probably not until next week or so, cooking up a new module for rubyforge over the weekend. :)
2. Porting documentation/books -- that is, take a popular work form another language (for instance, I seem to recall someone started down this road with Higher Order Perl) and provide a translation of the Ruby equivalents.
IIRC, the 'merd' language designer has done a very deep comparison of multiple languages, related to syntax and technique:
http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/syntax-across- languages.html
This may not be what you were looking for, but it will probably help you get there. :)
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