Future of scalax.rules package

[Andrew.Foggin]

Is anybody apart from me using (or planning to use) scalax.rules?  Or
does anybody have an opinion on whether it belongs in scalax or not?  If
I'm the only user it may not make sense to have it bulking up an
otherwise useful library.

Regards,

Andrew Foggin

[David MacIver]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Foggin <andy@...> wrote:
> Is anybody apart from me using (or planning to use) scalax.rules?  Or does

I've thought about using it a number of times, but never actually got
around to doing so.

> anybody have an opinion on whether it belongs in scalax or not?  If I'm the

In complete honesty, it's always seemed out of place to me. It
definitely looks worthy of being in a library somewhere, but I'm not
entirely sure scalax is the right one for it. I see scalax as much
more of a "lots of little stuff to make your life easier" library
(though others might disagree with me on this!), while your rules
stuff is a fairly significant library in its own right.

> only user it may not make sense to have it bulking up an otherwise useful
> library.

Scalax doesn't have a huge number of users at the moment at all. I
think the question should probably be resolved ignoring whether you're
the only user of scalax.rules.

[Christos KK Loverdos]

Hi Andrew,

Why do you think it is bulking up scalax?

I would like to contribute an idea that may be relevant. The big picture is to break scalax into smaller maven projects (with proper dependency checking). So scalax can then become an umbrella parent-project, but other than that one could just use any sub-project at will. I think your scalax.rules qualifies as such a sub-project.

BR
Christos.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Foggin <andy@...> wrote:

Is anybody apart from me using (or planning to use) scalax.rules?  Or does anybody have an opinion on whether it belongs in scalax or not?  If I'm the only user it may not make sense to have it bulking up an otherwise useful library.

Regards,

Andrew Foggin

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[Paul Phillips-3]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:37:21PM +0800, Andrew Foggin wrote:
> Is anybody apart from me using (or planning to use) scalax.rules?  Or
> does anybody have an opinion on whether it belongs in scalax or not?  
> If I'm the only user it may not make sense to have it bulking up an
> otherwise useful library.

I thought about (still thinking about) using it in my java translator,
but I was afraid you were the only user and I didn't want to add another
immature layer to the process from the get-go given how many unknowns I
was facing already.  So you might have a second user waiting in the
wings after I throw in the towel on translating straight to scala
source.  Each day that passes I pay a higher tax for not passing through
a scala abstract syntax tree.

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