Re: Kawa 1.7 looks good.

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

Per Bothner wrote:
> * Working on the GUI framework I sketched out in gnu/kawa/slib/GUI.scm,
> but with better model/view separation, and including tranformation.

I'm involved with some Java GUI efforts myself.  One of the more 
intriguing things about Kawa is the potential of JEmacs to leverage all 
that elisp code out there.

The next thing I have on my list to get together for Kawa is good Ant 
and scripting (BSF) support.  Especially a "kawac" compiling task that 
does some dependency checking (Jocelyn Paine's .scm dependency analyzer 
will help there).

> > Are you doing anything with JSR-225 (XQuery API for Java)?
>
> I've nominated myself, so we'll see.

Excellent.  If there's a way for me to vote for you, let me know!

> I prefer to not tie myself to SourceForge.  Remember than Kawa and Qexo
> are GNU projects, and SourceForge is a commercial site.  I'd rather use
> savannah.gnu.org, but I don't know if they support bugzilla.  (Savannah
> is based on the SourceForge code.)

Well, I don't see any negative's associated with using SourceForge for 
GPL projects.  In fact it is a positive for there to be companies which 
have successful business models to underwrite free software.  Amonga 
great many other good projects, SF hosts JBoss.

But aside from that fact I'm not looking to have 
yet-another-account-and-login-to-keep-track-of, Savannah is just dandy. 
 And yes it includes Bugzilla support (as you say, it uses SF's code).

And I just checked and Kawa is already registered there and you 
administer it:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/kawa

So if you put link from Kawa's home page to Kawa's Savannah project page 
and go to admin page to enable the bug tracker, then we're all set!

Jim
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