On 2/28/07, mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been evaluating MochiKit for an upcoming project. It looks > great, but I'm a little concerned about its status. Compared to dojo > and prototype, there seems to be little activity. I don't want to have > my project heavily dependent on a library that is not being developed > much anymore. Are future enhancements planned? What is the road map > for this project? How many developers contribute to this project? > > Thanks
The status of the project is that between 1.3 and 1.4 we took on a huge body of new functionality which took longer than expected to document and get right. svn trunk is pretty complete and stable (has been for months) and is usable in production. Because it took on all of this new functionality, none of the developers know and use all of the library anymore (e.g. I don't currently use anything in DragAndDrop, Sortable, or Visual) so it's harder to know what the overall status of everything is and it makes it harder for me to confidently do a release. >From your "future warm fuzzies" requirements it sounds like you might be more comfortable with Dojo. They have a lot more vested interest in releasing more often than we do and building a huge community around it. None of the MochiKit developers are doing consulting (to my knowledge anyway), so there's less reason for us. If Dojo was at its current state two years ago I would've used it rather than writing my own library. At the time MochiKit started, Dojo was just a svn repository with no documentation and a lot of code. MochiKit is practical code, extracted from real projects, written by the people who built those projects. Our roadmap is to incorporate whatever generic functionality that we've built in our own projects that would be useful to other people. There's no overall goal other than to maintain the high quality of the implementation and documentation while we grow new functionality. It's also hard to say that MochiKit "isn't really being developed" when there's a huge body of new code. There just haven't been any releases. The 1.4 release is imminent, but all of us are also very busy with our own companies. Compared to Prototype it appears inactive? I don't think you're paying much attention to Prototype :) And what's their roadmap for future enhancements? It's nice that they finally got around to writing documentation after two years, but I have fundamental and practical problems with the way that library extends JavaScript objects. -bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" 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/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
