Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Fremantle
That might be a problem to really generate interest. Apache first and foremost generates interest amongst developers who want to contribute the project, so I think you need to have an interesting list of things that need contribution. I have one tho - is anyone thinking of adding native XML suppo

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-11 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi Paul, IMO opinion the core language is pretty much stable - supports compilation to Java classes, JSR-223 (Java 6.0) runs with security manager and JWS, has good documentation, provides system for extension modules ... I see improvements for the optional pnuts modules, e.g. the optional

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Fremantle
I don't know enough about the pnuts community to know if it will make a good incubation project, but thanks for bringing it to my attention - looks like a neat language! And if it does come here I'll certainly join the discussions. One question I have is how much of pnuts is done and how much is

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On 5/9/07, Siegfried Goeschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your feedback would help me a lot convincing the pnuts community to move over to Apache. I couldn't care less, but if there are genuine interest from Apache folks, I'll support the idea of putting it into incubation. Cheers Niclas

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-10 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi Eelco, thanks for encouragement ... :-) Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl Eelco Hillenius wrote: Big +1 for me. It's a very useful scripting language that is easy to extend, easy to integrate with Java, easy to debug and is very fast. I've used it in two real-life projects so (though for simple th

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-10 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi Aaaron, the community question is also my biggest concern and there is actually an easy and a difficult part about it. I don't see many committers on the pnuts core project because very few people are able to design/implement a programming language properly. Having said this I don't want to se

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-09 Thread J Aaron Farr
Hello Siegfried! Siegfried Goeschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > since I'm basically an ASF newbie I would like to ask for some feedback > if you would think pnuts as suitable candidate for an incubator project. > > Your feedback would help me a lot convincing the pnuts community to move > over

Re: [Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-09 Thread Eelco Hillenius
Big +1 for me. It's a very useful scripting language that is easy to extend, easy to integrate with Java, easy to debug and is very fast. I've used it in two real-life projects so (though for simple things) and it always worked great for me. Eelco On 5/9/07, Siegfried Goeschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?!]

2007-05-09 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
As Yoav Shapira pointed out this is the right place to go ... :-) Siegfried Goeschl Original Message Subject: Request for Comments - Pnuts as Incubator Project?! Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:55:06 +0200 From: Siegfried Goeschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org