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by Erik Engbrecht :: Rate this Message:

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The original idea behind scalax was that it would be kind of a proving ground for improvements to the Scala standard library, but the community never really developed.  It was kind of a response to a constant stream of critisism of the Scala libraries and lots of ideas for enhancements.

I think most people who have projects, or who have experimental forks to Scala have just put them on other project hosting sites like BitBucket and GitHub.  Also, the number of Scala commiters has grown substantially since then, so there are more people who can contribute their ideas directly to the main Scala project rather than going through an intermediate step.

My suggestion would be to pick a social code site, put your library there, and then post to the Scala mailing list about it.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Paul Phillips <paulp@...> wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 07:09:32AM -0500, Nils Kilden-Pedersen wrote:
> No response on this mailing list, nor any response from Jamie Webb to
> my direct email request. I conclude this project is dead.

I don't know if there are others who fall into my category, but I find
there's so much work to do on the main scala distribution I have little
time or need for a scalax.  Maybe someday when the mainline is quite a
bit more mature.

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