Re: Moving forward

2010-09-17 Thread Massimo Manghi
On 09/15/2010 03:52 PM, Damon Courtney wrote: I'm not sure I know where to go either. 0-] I'm just working with it and starting to find places where it could be improved, that's all. I think you're right about getting new users and new energy, but not a damn one of us knows how to do that.

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-15 Thread Harald Oehlmann
Am 15.09.2010 17:41, schrieb Rob Sciuk: > To sum up: Rivet must adopt an elegant frame work architecture which > makes it dead simple to develop compelling platform agnostic rich > multi-media web applications. That's all. Maybee, the speech of Arnulf Wiedemann at TCLConf will show one of those.

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-15 Thread Rob Sciuk
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Damon Courtney wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:52:26 -0500 From: Damon Courtney To: Rivet_dev Subject: Re: Moving forward I think one of the biggest advances in the potential for the use of Rivet by others has been the creation of a Linux RPM and a FreeBSD port of

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-15 Thread Damon Courtney
> I think one of the biggest advances in the potential for the use of Rivet by > others has been the creation of a Linux RPM and a FreeBSD port of Rivet 2.0. > > While I enthusiastically welcome further Rivet development, successful > efforts to grow the user base will yield more energy and more

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-15 Thread Damon Courtney
> Giving as granted we are using Tcl8.5 from now on we can obviously expand, > reform and/or complement commands and packages. I'm sure Damon is thinking > of our database access module for example. Also smaller databases (headers, > cookies, forms, environment) may benefit of dicts to improv

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-15 Thread Karl Lehenbauer
Sounds good, Massimo. I think one of the biggest advances in the potential for the use of Rivet by others has been the creation of a Linux RPM and a FreeBSD port of Rivet 2.0. While I enthusiastically welcome further Rivet development, successful efforts to grow the user base will yield more en

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-15 Thread Massimo Manghi
Just of couple of thoughts about Damon's proposal to drop 8.4 support for good. Giving as granted we are using Tcl8.5 from now on we can obviously expand, reform and/or complement commands and packages. I'm sure Damon is thinking of our database access module for example. Also smaller da

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-13 Thread Reinhard Max
Hi Harald, On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 at 11:58, Harald Oehlmann wrote: Reinhard, any comments ? for openSUSE (and that's the only one I can speak for) I see no problem in dropping support for 8.4 from Rivet. cu Reinhard

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-10 Thread Harald Oehlmann
Thank you discussing about dropping tcl 8.4. The rpm packets at opensuse depend for the following distribution on: CentOS 5: 8.4 RHEL 5: 8.4 OpenSuSE 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, Factory: 8.5 SLE 11: 8.5 So the packets for CentOS and RHEL will not build any more. By the way, Massimo, still no advertisment

Re: Moving forward

2010-09-10 Thread Massimo Manghi
I agree On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:27:43 -0500, Damon Courtney wrote > I think it's time to drop support for Tcl 8.4 in the next release. > We've got 2.0.1 out there that works with 8.4, but 8.4 is getting > long in the tooth and will soon be EOL'd. I'm already running > everything on 8.6, and Kar