Hi Scalax-ers,
This is Josh Suereth and Erik Engbrecht. The BEAST has decided to improve Scala's I/O libraries as part of our contributions to Scala. We were thinking we could take the Resource Management portions and I/O from scalax and try to evolve it independently (and under the same BSD license). Our reasoning behind this is to minimize the scope of the project (mainly to good I/O in scala). We believe that we can take the existing (and rather nice) scalax libraries and provide documentation/final touches. We would also use SBT's new multi-scala-version release mechanism to promote this subset of scalax. This way the library can easily be used across multiple versions of Scala. We feel better support across Scala versions is critical to future commercial adoption, especially in larger, more conservative settings.
We don't want to split the community. We believe a narrower focus will help us deliver a finished product in a shorter timeline. We will keep a compatabile license with the end goal being merge back into scalax and hopefully scala itself. We're calling the project
scalax.io, and it's located on
github. We'd like to keep the community active and involved and invite all current members to contribute to the project. We plan to have a 0.1 (complete with documentation) released in 2-3 months.
- The BEAST
