Same here, I never committed on Rhino, but patched it a lot over the
years for special use cases, and know its internals quite well. But I
think focusing on Nashorn is the way go.
I also hope that the Nashorn-backport project will get some official
recognition, because many of us can't switch to JVM8 so soon:
https://bitbucket.org/ramonza/nashorn-backport
To be honest, I don't really understand why Nashorn can't be
JVM7-compatible out of the box. My guess is that's a non-technical
decision, just a way to promote upgrades to JVM8. ;)
On 12/03/2013 05:47 AM, Hannes Wallnoefer wrote:
As the one who did most of the maintenance work on Rhino over the past
years, I still have a lot of sympathy for Rhino and would love to see
it moving on.
For my part I have found I don't have the time or mental bandwidth to
lead that work (as I used to) or even contribute substantially. I also
think Nashorn has far greater promise than Rhino, and in many regards
is far ahead already (ECMA compliance, indy everywhere instead of slow
property lookup or reflection, compiling large scripts ...).
I do have some suggestions for moving on with Rhino, however. Since
they're off-topic here I'll post them on the Rhino list.
Hannes
Am 2013-12-02 18:50, schrieb Greg Brail:
Nashorn committers -- it looks like you are all hard at work and
producing
something very promising.
In the meantime, my group is doing a lot of work with Rhino, and from
the
traffic on the mailing list there are quite a few others around the
world
using it as well. Rhino needs some maintenance, and I'd like to
figure out
a way to get that done. There are bugs to be fixed and other features
to be
improved, and it'd be better to do it as the "Rhino community" rather
than
as a disconnected set of forks.
However, all the Rhino committers seem to have gone over to Nashorn.
Were any of you on this list formerly Rhino committers? Would you be
able
to give me some help figuring out how to get a new set of committers
appointed so that we can continue to move forward with Rhino while
you guys
work on Nashorn?
Thanks, and feel free to contact me privately if this mailing list isn't
appropriate.
