I've had similar thoughts. jQuery is "king of the DOM" nowadays, no need/use to compete with overlapping low-level features there. I think the Python heritage should continue to be embraced though. When looking at underscore lib I kindof like it but that's mostly because lots of it already exists in MK ;) Looks like MK.Base + Iter interface (but without actual iterator code).
I added couple of draft libraries to my MochiKit fork last year. https://github.com/blq/mochikit - http://blq.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/index.html To keep things moving perhaps parts of these could be added? Improved binding etc http://blq.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/Base-ext.html Resembles "rest of" the Python itertools module: http://blq.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/Iter-ext.html Resembles the Python Bisect module http://blq.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/Bisect.html Resembles the Python HeapQ module http://blq.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/HeapQ.html http://blq.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/Random.html ... (see the changelog) Code annotation and build scripts to integrate with Google Closure compiler is also added. Feedback welcome! Regards // Fredrik Blomqvist On Aug 15, 5:56 am, Bob Ippolito <b...@redivi.com> wrote: > I agree, if I had a good reason I would split MochiKit up into smaller > components that built on top of jQuery and perhaps backbone and/or > underscore. I only have direct experience with jQuery but I've heard > good things from smart people about backbone and underscore. jQuery is > a fine library for DOM stuff but it really just doesn't do much of the > more interesting stuff that MochiKit has done for years. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Per Cederberg <p...@percederberg.net> wrote: > > Agreed. Nowadays I'm also in maintenance-only-mode with respect to > > MochiKit. Meaning that I'll only address critical bugs or merge > > well-documented & tested patches. The MochiKit.Text module and version > > 1.5 won't progress further unless someone else steps up to do the > > work. > > > That said, I'm still using MochiKit where it makes sense. Preferably > > in conjunction with jQuery. Would be nice to eventually package up > > MochiKit into separate pieces that glue better into jQuery in some > > ways. But the custom packaging solution we have right now also allows > > to strip out some obvious duplicated stuff... > > > Cheers, > > > /Per > > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 20:45, Bob Ippolito <b...@redivi.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM, machineghost <machinegh...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> So, given that: > > >>> * There hasn't been a blog post on the website in ... ever (according > >>> to the front of the site; in reality there was a post back in 2008) > >>> * There hasn't been a release since 2008 > >>> * This mailing list gets a post (with no response) once every other > >>> month or so, if that > >>> * MochiKit is less popular than random frameworks I've never heard of > >>> (xajax? what's that?) by a factor of six (http://www.readwriteweb.com/ > >>> hack/2011/08/javascript-framework-popularit.php) > > >>> it really seems like MochiKit is a dead project, or at best a zombie > >>> project. Is that accurate? I mean, obviously people currently using > >>> it aren't going to stop, but is new development, promotion of the > >>> framework, improvement of the website/docs/etc. dead? > > >> Zombie sounds about accurate to me, we still use it but it's done what > >> we've needed it to do for quite a few years so we haven't bothered to > >> make any changes to it. We don't have a lot of incentive to encourage > >> other people to use it, especially at this point. If someone is > >> interested in making improvements they're more than welcome to do so, > >> it's all pretty much github based these days so accepting pull > >> requests, adding contributors and updating the site is very easy. > > >> -bob > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "MochiKit" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> mochikit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MochiKit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > mochikit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mochikit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en.