Dear David, i don't really see this as losing our Scala Actors so much as *gaining* an interface. Surely, someone can wire up Scala Actors to that interface if there is a need. ;-)
Best wishes, --greg On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:30 PM, David Pollak <[email protected] > wrote: > Folks, > > Given the continued instability of Scala Actors, I've decided to remove > them from Lift. > > Specifically, I'm migrating CometActors to sit on top of Lift's Actors. > But, you'll also be able to use Akka Actors to power Lift's CometActors. > Specifically, I'm working with Jonas to make sure that we share a common > interface to Actors. > > I've gotten Lift nearly completely migrated over to Lift's Actors on the > dpp_wip_actorize branch. See > http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/dpp_wip_actorize > > There will be some breaking changes to your applications. Specifically: > > - Box will be moved to a new package, net.liftweb.base (this is where > the interface for Actors will live as well) > - If you make any assumptions about your CometActors being Scala Actors > (e.g., using linking), you will have to rewrite this code > - Some methods in Lift that currently take Scala Actors as parameters > will take Lift Actors (e.g., ActorPing) > > There will be a parallel Maven repository with the new Lift Actor stuff in > it so you will be able to build you apps against the new code before the > official switch-over. > > Milestone 6 (which should be out next week) will be based on the existing > Actor model. After we get feedback from the community about the new Actor > stuff, we will switch -SNAPSHOT over to the new Actor stuff. > > Questions, thoughts, or comments? > > Thanks, > > David > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Surf the harmonics > > > > -- L.G. Meredith Managing Partner Biosimilarity LLC 1219 NW 83rd St Seattle, WA 98117 +1 206.650.3740 http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
