On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Erik Engbrecht
<erik.engbrecht@...> wrote:
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.
I think your last suggestion is fine for a stand-alone project, but less good for general library classes. That sort of stuff is better suited for either the Scala distro itself or a couple larger standalone projects. Otherwise it just gets lost in the forest.
BTW, I never considered the Scala library itself, probably because of how Java always worked, i.e. you couldn't really contribute to the JDK. How does that work with Scala? Are there requirements and scope, or can any nitwit, like myself, commit various random code to it?
