Re: [dash-dev] Archive the Eclipse Monkey component

[Paul Colton <paul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [dash-dev] Archive the Eclipse Monkey component

Bjorn,

I think Eclipse Monkey is about enabling scripting in Eclipse. Renaming it Groovy Eclipse Monkey I think takes away from the goal of having pluggable scripting languages for general purpose Eclipse scripting (for example, we support Ruby now in Eclipse Monkey in our Aptana Studio product).

I think keeping it more general, and adding Groovy support, as was the original pan with James joined, would still be a worthwhile path.

-Paul Colton





On 4/28/08 2:38 PM, "Bjorn Freeman-Benson" <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> James,
> I would be happy for you to take over Eclipse Monkey as Goovy Monkey (or Groovy Eclipse Monkey).  I suggest we do so by starting over and creating a new project (technology.monkey). Then you and the new committers would have complete control over the project rather than having it be a sub-component of the current Dash projects.
>
> I believe that Eclipse Monkey has a small but dedicated user base - what it needs now is a similarly dedicated set of committers. You could be the one to make that happen.
>
> - Bjorn
>
> James Ervin wrote: 
> > I would be happy to migrate my groovy monkey tool into Eclipse Monkey, since the whole project appears to be moribund.  There are alot more features I want to add and would love the opportunity to distribute that work to the most people possible.
> >  
> > I know that I was made a member back about a year ago and due to personal circumstances, I was not able to follow up and now my membership seems kinda dead.
> >  
> > I would love it if some ppl took a look at groovy monkey ( http://groovy-monkey.sourceforge.net/update http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Monkey ) and see if that is the way that they would like this project to go.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > James