Björn wrote: > Is it really necessary to have the distribution in one stream?
Raul responded: > I think that that would be a great thing. > Essentially, it means that the system is cohesive. I agree strongly with Raul. At the very least, the default download should be similar to J6, in that you get the engine (DLL+jconsole), a friendly GUI frontend (GTK), and the standard library. JHS could be optional or a separate download. J's existing community is still small, and we are still in "recruitment mode", and we should be sensitive about a newcomer's first experience. > The official J7 distribution will be a barebones system, > that will be essentially what Jsoftware provides and supports This statement concerns me. Will JSoftware not support the standard library? Will it not JGTKIDE? Will it not support JHS? I can understand if it's JSoftware's *hope* that "the community" will support these extras, but I cannot understand if that's JSoftware's *expectation*. Again, if only because our community is small. And because we've tried that approach (or similar approaches) in the past on J subsystems (e.g. inter-J-communication, or the "open" J IDE), with limited success. Though JAL is inspiring. If JSoftware wants to go down this road, it might be time to reconsider open-sourcing the engine. Though I don't know how much of the revenue stream comes from source licenses vs consulting. -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
