The last word on this subject from Andrew Dupont was on October 7th, when he wrote:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (Dammit, I've got to set up an alert for this thread so new messages don't fall through the cracks. Sorry for the late reply, guys.) On Sep 2, 9:10 pm, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I read in to this is that Andrew has said he is not "planning" on > ceasing development anytime soon BUT plans change and when something else > takes his attention away, then development will cease. > > [snip] > > I think what I and others were looking for was some form of commitment... a > commitment to moving the community forward was a commitment to prototypes > future and I am left with the feeling that prototypes future is uncertain. Your reading is correct, more or less. I have no plans to stop working on Prototype, but I'm also not pledging an oath of support. Truthfully, it's not that time-consuming to maintain, and I believe in it and find it rewarding to work on, so right now I can't imagine what could come up in my life to make me cease development on Prototype. But the possibility remains. (Eventually, maybe after 1.7.1 gets released, I'd like to find someone new to add to the core team so that it can keep going if I need to step back.) Or, in short: you're right that I can't give you a commitment. On Sep 2, 9:10 pm, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew, this isn't a personal attack, I just need to speak frankly and > honestly because I personally own my own sites and I write the code behind > them. If I invest tons of time in a framework like prototype then I am > hitching my star to yours. If you quit working on prototype then I am left > with some major rewrites and those rewrites are not trivial and in one case > could cost lives. First of all: if you've got JavaScript that could kill people if you try to refactor it... well, um, be careful with that. Yeah. I understand what you're saying. How about this: if I ever decide to cease development of Prototype, I'll release a script that ports the Prototype API to jQuery (or whatever framework is atop the hill). In other words, you'll be able to swap out Prototype with said script and it'd just call the equivalent jQuery methods under the hood. That, at least, would be a way forward for you. Does that help at all? On Sep 15, 5:08 pm, greg <i...@wildanimaltracks.com> wrote: > For instance: if we had > volunteers who could project manage, do good design/CSS work, design a > framework that allowed 'widgets' to share a common base/communicate, > program, establish standards and so on, then with some effort we could > have a great tool with great add-ons. Imagine how simple things would > be if all Prototype widgets shared the same CSS classes and usage. > > I'm willing to be a part of such a group. This exists, in fact, albeit in an unfinished state. I've been working on scripty2 UI [1], on and off, for about 18 months; it's designed to use jQuery UI's CSS conventions so that you can use a jQUI theme for scripty2 widgets and vice-versa. If you can help with this effort in any way, I'm all ears. Cheers, Andrew [1]: http://scripty2.com/doc/scripty2_ui_section.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% I hope this clarifies things a bit. I think it's still very much alive, and I'm currently in the process of porting foundation to Prototype this afternoon as my Open Source Friday project. I'm nearly done with the app.js file right now, and no breakage or magick I couldn't work around to report. Walter On Jan 6, 2012, at 1:44 PM, James Hargreaves wrote: > Gutted! Prototype rocks! > > On 6 Jan 2012, at 18:34, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Last I heard was the developer said it was still active but on a catch as >> catch can basis and then several other comments said it was dead. I have >> seen no forward movement so my plan became to continue using it as long as >> its still working but all new code is developed with an eye towards moving >> to another platform. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:49 AM, James Hargreaves >> <james.hargrea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I note that the prototype libraries (available on prototypejs.org) >> have not been updated since November 2010. Indeed, nothing much seems >> to have been updated on the site since around then. >> >> Is prototype still an active project? >> >> Thanks >> Jay >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. 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