Re: Status of project and adding 1.5 generics

I think this confirms it: Beanshell is dead.  I also learned more
about Franklin Schmidt's project (beanshell2).  Part of his reply to
me sums up his involvement:

  "I don't want to be considered the owner of this project.  I just set
  it up to share fixes and enhancement in the hope that I benefit from
  some other people's work."

If we stick with beanshell, we can upgrade to the latest 2.0 beta or
move to this code base--if we stick with beanshell at all.

It would be a good idea to take a look at the JDEE Elisp and count how
many occurrences of beanshell there really are.  The majority of the
code I've worked with seems more to fire off an invocation to JDEE
specific Java compiled classes, which in turn generate Elisp.  But
there isn't a lot of actual beanshell specific code.

If there is, and since the syntax is very similar, perhaps it wouldn't
be too difficult of a thing to port the existing beanshell code to
something that is a little more maintained.

Is there anyone attached to beanshell for JDE critical functionality?
Again, I'm a huge fan of it, but not if it isn't maintained.


Harlan Sexton writes:
 > Sorry about my braino, I understand now.
 > 
 > The developer seems to have switched jobs; I exchanged email with him
 > several months back to get clarification about using Beanshell in another
 > library, but it was a bit hard to get his attention even then, and I got the
 > impression that he was moving (I forget why I had that impression). The
 > project seemed inactive even then.
 > 
 > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Paul Landes <[email protected]> wrote:
 > > I'm referring to the syntactic sugar you mentioned when I ask about
 > > adding generics.
 > >
 > > Also, it appears there hasn't been a release in a while.  What's the
 > > status of the project?
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > Harlan Sexton writes:
 > >  > Could you explain what you mean by "adding generics"? Java 1.5 generic
 > >  > types are just syntactic sugar -
 > >  > for some reason they were unwilling to actually change the VM to
 > >  > extend the type system. (This was a mistake,
 > >  > but at the time I was maintaining the Java VM in the Oracle RDBMS and
 > >  > was very busy with other things, so
 > >  > I was glad not to have to do anything for this change.)
 > >  >
 > >  > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Paul Landes <[email protected]> wrote:
 > >  > > I'm resending part of this message as I'm now on the devel list and
 > >  > > might have gotten bounded.  Sorry for the extra noise here, folks.
 > >  > > I'm not having great luck with the mailing lists.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > --
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Pat et al,
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Are there any plans of adding Java 1.5 generics to beanshell any time
 > >  > > soon?
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Also, it appears there hasn't been a release in a while.  What's the
 > >  > > status of the project?
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Thanks.
 > >  > >
 > >  > >
 > >  > > --
 > >  > > Paul Landes
 > >  > > [email protected]
 > >  > >
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