Re: Vote on Prothon 1.0 specs !!!

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:05:56 -0700 Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have the first real proposal for the actual 1.0 specs.
> Check out http://prothon.org/wiki?pagename=OnePtZeroIndex.
> 
> I've made a new category of things to delay until a future release.  I've
> put all the design-by-contract stuff in there plus some others.
> 
> The stackless stuff still needs a lot of design work, but we have something
> we could use for the worst case which is equivalent to stackless 1.0 and we
> could start with that and delay the features of 2.0 until a future Prothon
> release.  If we did that we would be limited to co-routines that have no C
> extensions for 1.0.  Also if we had to we could remove pre-emption and sleep
> in the light-weight threads for now which would make Christian agree with
> the current specs.  It is always safer to start with less features and add
> them later.
> 
> The other topic that needs discussion is translation with the _"xxx" i18n
> translation strings at  http://prothon.org/wiki?pagename=TranslationStrings.
> I think we should have these but only Lenard and I have discussed them.
> 
> So look over the set of features that I have chosen to include, delay, and
> reject.
> 
> Vote now!!!!
> 
Looks like a good selection of features to start with for version 1.0

Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>