Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Petr Gladkikh
I admit that I am a passerby here but my impression is that things around PicoLisp feel closed and this is not about the code itself. In particular, there seems to be no public source code repository so source history can only be inferred somehow from releases. I see that some people already try

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Rowan Thorpe
> On 02/20/2017 09:19 AM, Jakob Eriksson wrote: > > I would love for the public repo to be on github! I would love for it to be on some kind of public git repo too. I'm mostly indifferent whether it's github/bitbucket/sourceforge/whatever, but would just love to be able to pull/branch/rebase for

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Jakob Eriksson
I would love for the public repo to be on github! I think for many, an open source project does not really exist, unless it is on Github. We should also try to resurrect somehow, the [picolisp] tag on Stack Overflow. Given that it is encouraged to put in official documentation in the form of

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Christopher Howard
I'm sure my opinion has very little weight around here, but since other people are discussing it I want to put in a plug for Savannah (Non-GNU): https://savannah.nongnu.org/ If you aren't willing to run the proprietary JavaScript on Github it becomes a real pain to work with. (Gets an F rating

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On 2017-02-20 19:46, Christopher Howard wrote: > The only tradeoffs with savannah nongnu is it sometimes takes them a few > weeks to approve your project hosting, and they require you to put > licensing information on each code file (a really good idea anyway). > No. That is like saying that

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Lindsay John Lawrence
Picolisp has a release archive readily downloadable here... http://software-lab.de/down.html. In my limited experience with picolisp, it actually reminds me of sqlite ( http://sqlite.org) in its approach... "Small, Fast, Reliable. Chose any three" Sqlite seems to have a particularly effective

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-20 Thread Christopher Howard
Well, of course, you guys are free to do want you want to try and please whomever you want. I'm just an actual user of picolisp. Whenever I find that a project is on Github, I find the url for cloning the repository, and then never use any of the project site features ever again (issue tracker,