Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: So, in the end, a mixture is imho the right way. Amen: commit then review is way faster than the other way around. Balanced Meritocratic Do-ocracy is our government model and it really works well. Some of us (myself first) come out rather strong sometimes, due to our

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: End of the day, Carsten does what he likes. Sure he does what he likes. But please allow me to raise what I consider as a potential community issue. Fortunately, Carsten's answer shows that he understood my concerns, which is good. And I also know

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Carsten Ziegeler wrote: ... So, again: everyone is invited to join the party. Open Source is either driven by itch scratching (well, not always, but that's not important here), so if it itches, do something about it, that's all I can say. +1 I'll also like to add that

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Torsten Curdt wrote: Ok, folks. I've added a ReloadingClassloader to jci which we could use for Cocoon. It reloads classes from a specific repository. YEY! Now the idea is to point it to the Eclipse output directory so once you compiled your classes in eclipse they would be available to Cocoon

Re: [OT]Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Wojciech Gdela wrote: Hello, But maybe an interesting question would be: how would cocoon be different when written in another language. Would you need an XML sitemap if you could just write your sitemap in a dynamic language? I've recently developed very small cocoon-like framework in php

Re: [OT]Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:00:19 +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wojciech Gdela wrote: Hello, sniOO pipeline discussion (sorta)/snip It's also true that we know a lot more than pipeline caching is more a myth than a real useful thing, at times and more so in complex web

Re: [OT]Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-22 Thread Mark Lowe
this might be useful, it might not be. But personally I'd like to be able to store the mappings information in something like the cocoon.xconf in an xml format, it could be the struts/jsf/spring talking but having the servlet configuration in one place makes sense (to me, there could be good

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-21 Thread Torsten Curdt
Ok, folks. I've added a ReloadingClassloader to jci which we could use for Cocoon. It reloads classes from a specific repository. Now the idea is to point it to the Eclipse output directory so once you compiled your classes in eclipse they would be available to Cocoon right away. ...still we have

Re: [OT]Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-21 Thread Wojciech Gdela
Hello, But maybe an interesting question would be: how would cocoon be different when written in another language. Would you need an XML sitemap if you could just write your sitemap in a dynamic language? I've recently developed very small cocoon-like framework in php language. What I really love

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-20 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Sylvain Wallez wrote: SNIP/ You have some relevant and also true points in your statements, no doubt. But have a look at how new things really came into our project, there often were some nice emals like He, I implemented this cool feature, now we can... - and these weren't always mine. So, in

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-20 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Oh my, I'm in this os scene for so many years now and sure: I know the problems and the potential dangers. But of course there is also the danger of death by discussion! And please, just take some minutes and think about all the commits made to Cocoon - you'll find many examples where things

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: ... So, again: everyone is invited to join the party. Open Source is either driven by itch scratching (well, not always, but that's not important here), so if it itches, do something about it, that's all I can say. +1 I'll also like to add that committers should learn to

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-19 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: snip/ So, my opinion is we should just look at what people want to use, what *we* thing is the best to have, combine those two and then: just do it. The past showed that first discussing things lead to no code while first coding somethings and then start a discussion

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 20 February 2005 04:58, Sylvain Wallez wrote: But if I have to discuss each and every feature with 20 people - everyone having it's own ideas - I'm most times blocked: 5 people like the idea, 3 people don't like the idea and so you're doomed. I strongly disagree with your point

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Greg Weinger wrote: This may be way off course, but have you thought about a Cocoon in Squeak? No and I'm *NOT* rewriting 4 million lines of code (cocoon + all the libraries it depends on!) in another language, thanks. -- Stefano.

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Bart Molenkamp wrote: -Original Message- From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:14 PM To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java Big -1 Not knowing where the code is is bad, having to versions that claim

[OT]Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-18 Thread Rogier Peters
quoting Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greg Weinger wrote: This may be way off course, but have you thought about a Cocoon in Squeak? The thought must have crossed a lot of minds - but I don't actually know of success-stories of the

Re: [OT]Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-18 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Rogier Peters wrote: But maybe an interesting question would be: how would cocoon be different when written in another language. Would you need an XML sitemap if you could just write your sitemap in a dynamic language? Yes, that is a very interesting question, but it's not something I want to

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... This is why I think we should make an effort to think about how we can solve this time/cognitive-energy discrepancy between the scripting and the java try/fail cycle. +1 In fact, for users, xslt in Cocoon is cool because you get instant feedback, and the current

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 16/feb/05, alle 00:32, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: You can test the input and output of a pipeline, but this is exactly what I do with my browser when I hit it! Sure I can automate that when it's ready to know what is broken or not later on, but it's not unit testing, is functional

Thread-safe generators and transformers, Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Ralph Goers wrote: 2. I really want thread-safe generators and transformers. I've glanced at the sitemap code to see what it would take to do item 2 and it didn't seem to me that the code was pretty understandable. Just so you know, this is already done and implemented. Remind me to commit

Re: Thread-safe generators and transformers, Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Goers
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Ralph Goers wrote: 2. I really want thread-safe generators and transformers. I've glanced at the sitemap code to see what it would take to do item 2 and it didn't seem to me that the code was pretty understandable. Just so you know, this is already done and implemented.

Re: Thread-safe generators and transformers, Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Ralph Goers wrote: Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Ralph Goers wrote: 2. I really want thread-safe generators and transformers. I've glanced at the sitemap code to see what it would take to do item 2 and it didn't seem to me that the code was pretty understandable. Just so you know, this is already done

Re: Thread-safe generators and transformers, Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Goers
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10958635923r=1 Yeah, this is where I got the idea. Scanning trunk, it doesn't look like you've actually checked anything in? However, I don't believe the technique you proposed will always work. The problem is, some generators

Re: Thread-safe generators and transformers, Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-17 Thread Ralph Goers
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Have I mentioned that this is for C2.2 only? :-) Vadim [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10958635923r=1 Forget my previous comment. I don't know what I was thinking. Your technique works just fine. Ralph

RE: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Molenkamp
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:06, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Something that doesn't help also is the fact that our foundations are maintained and documented (or not) elsewhere, at Excalibur. This includes the Avalon framework interfaces and SourceResolver, Store, XML

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:06, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Something that doesn't help also is the fact that our foundations are maintained and documented (or not) elsewhere, at Excalibur. This includes the Avalon framework interfaces and SourceResolver, Store, XML utils,

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
SNIP/ I agree with most points from Stefano and we see it each time we do Cocoon training that it's very hard for new users to start with Cocoon. Imho that's a main difference between Cocoon and other projects: with other projects it's very easy to start, but you might get stuck later on in

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Torsten Curdt
Sorry Stefano, but I feel that you are somewhat biased. :-) I'm not saying unit tests are the solution to all evil, and I certainly understand that within the *current* Cocoon environment unit tests might not help much. But this is because the current codebase isn't test-friendly, so that it

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Torsten Curdt wrote: I think there is another explanation why there are so little changes: We are way more concerned about the stability of contracts. ...even for trunk! Quite a few people now have live installations and seem to go for the na, don't change it! it ain't really broken. This seems

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Lowe
As someone who's walked into a cocoon project over the last few weeks, I don't have a problem with the usage pattern as such (sitemap.xconf, flowscripts, cforms etc). Most of the problems I've had have been to do with some of the crack-induced choices made by other parties (I wont go into

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: IMO our huge community problem is what is most important. No, I'm certainly not talking about our excelent existing community, I'm talking about the fact that we only elected two new committers during 2004, compare that to around ten during

A gettogether [was Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java]

2005-02-16 Thread Upayavira
Torsten Curdt wrote: Yepp ...yepp ...yepp Guys, maybe we should get together more often. I found this always very helpful... I'm up for it. And ask for some corporate sponsorship for those in far and distant lands. A two day hackathon somewhere in Europe. I like the idea. Regards, Upayavira

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 15:41, Reinhard Poetz wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: Why not use SVN's more exotic features of external linking, and plainly include the Excalibur codebase (source that is) as part of Cocoon? You all have commit access to it, and it is not likely that the

Re: A gettogether [was Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java]

2005-02-16 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Upayavira wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: Yepp ...yepp ...yepp Guys, maybe we should get together more often. I found this always very helpful... I'm up for it. And ask for some corporate sponsorship for those in far and distant lands. A two day hackathon somewhere in Europe. I like the idea. If

Re: A gettogether [was Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java]

2005-02-16 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 16/feb/05, alle 13:01, Carsten Ziegeler ha scritto: If we can't do it earlier, we could use the ApacheCon in Stuttgart this year. We could meet the days before or after the conference, so this would reduce travel costs. +1 Ugo -- Ugo Cei - http://agylen.com/blojsom/blog/

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:06, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Something that doesn't help also is the fact that our foundations are maintained and documented (or not) elsewhere, at Excalibur. This includes the Avalon framework interfaces and SourceResolver, Store, XML utils,

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Bart Molenkamp wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:06, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Something that doesn't help also is the fact that our foundations are maintained and documented (or not) elsewhere, at Excalibur. This includes the Avalon framework interfaces and

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
Reinhard Poetz wrote: Why not use SVN's more exotic features of external linking, and plainly include the Excalibur codebase (source that is) as part of Cocoon? You all have commit access to it, and it is not likely that the Excalibur community will make any big changes in the future, and

RE: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Bart Molenkamp
-Original Message- From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:14 PM To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java Big -1 Not knowing where the code is is bad, having to versions that claim

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-16 Thread Greg Weinger
This may be way off course, but have you thought about a Cocoon in Squeak? That perhaps Java won't ever be able to give you the rapid development experience (with easy manipulation of the core engine--the damn virtual machine, if you're crazy) you're looking for? Alan Kay came to this

[RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: IMO our huge community problem is what is most important. No, I'm certainly not talking about our excelent existing community, I'm talking about the fact that we only elected two new committers during 2004, compare that to around ten during 2003, and probably similar

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Ralph Goers
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: snip And I suspect a lot can be done by just documenting how existing cocoon committers do their development today, not *on-top-of* cocoon, but *within* cocoon. Stefano, Your post reminds me a little bit of the architecture of the computers we use. Back when I was a

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Torsten Curdt
And now you ask me to write java code and take 60 seconds to see if anything I changed made a difference? You gotta be kidding. It's a pain ...I know. Another private conversation tried to convince Torsten of moving the compiling classloader into the pipeline system so that we could use pipeline

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 15/feb/05, alle 17:37, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: sniplots of interesting things which I'll need to digest before venting my thoughts/snip plus this... When I think about implementing real blocks, I think about the *weeks* of not having anything visible and I never even start!!

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:37:18 -0500, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, it doesn't the stacktrace is a million lines long... most of this code I don't recognize anymore, it's like looking at somebody else's project now and it's big and massive. And the logs were all

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: IMO our huge community problem is what is most important. No, I'm certainly not talking about our excelent existing community, I'm talking about the fact that we only elected two new committers during 2004, compare that to around ten during

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:37:18 -0500, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, it doesn't the stacktrace is a million lines long... most of this code I don't recognize anymore, it's like looking at somebody else's project now and it's big and massive. And

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Damn, hit send too soon :-) Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: People keep talking about documentation but let's get real: we know that the code is the place to look, you can 'control-click' in eclipse on a method and see what it does, you don't need documentation if you are a cocoon committer to

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: IMO our huge community problem is what is most important. No, I'm certainly not talking about our excelent existing community, I'm talking about the fact that we only elected two new committers during 2004, compare that to

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Ralph Goers
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: No, and I don't care. This is *NOT* what I'm trying to solve. I don't care if users user java or not, what I care is that cocoon committers are not afraid of the core or that they are not adding java components to the system because writing them in javascript is faster

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:06, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Something that doesn't help also is the fact that our foundations are maintained and documented (or not) elsewhere, at Excalibur. This includes the Avalon framework interfaces and SourceResolver, Store, XML utils, etc. Only the

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Sylvain Wallez wrote: So one big problem again here is documentation. Not user-level docs that has been identified as a problem for long an which is currently considered seriously thanks to Reinhard, but developer-level documentation. We can reasonably suspect that many potential developers

Re: [RT] How scripting made me hate java

2005-02-15 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:06, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Something that doesn't help also is the fact that our foundations are maintained and documented (or not) elsewhere, at Excalibur. This includes the Avalon framework interfaces and SourceResolver, Store, XML utils,