Re: Re: Introduction

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Erik Engbrecht <erik.engbrecht@...> wrote:

Well, let's see...

First, types of projects:
1. Experimental "fork" of something within the core of Scala
    Examples:  http://github.com/paulp/scala/tree/master and http://bitbucket.org/eengbrec/scala-enhancements/
2. Add-on libraries
    Examples:  http://code.google.com/p/sbinary/ http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/ and of course scalax

I think #1 is needed more right now, probably with less experimentation and more old-fashioned code cleanup.

Needed for whom though? No doubt #1 is needed more for the community as a whole, and there are people working on that, but that does not mean there's no need for #2. In fact I have that need, which is why I posted to this group. I've had to write basic library code, because it's missing from Scala and the current extension libraries. Is there no value in contributing that? Of course there is.