[news.eclipse.technology.ldt] Re: Eclipse Dynamic [ was Re: Focus on DSL

[Tim Wagner <twagner@xxxxxxx>]

One of the advantages I see of treating LDT as a languages gathering
place and components within it for various purposes (like dynamic
languages) is that the latter will be very easy to set up. Since
there's a certain amount of overhead associated with establishing a
new technology project, it seems that a lighterweight process is
useful.

Another advantage of the grouping is that it will make emerging
language technologies easier to find. Although I believe a new
toplevel project has been suggested, that approach is somewhat at odds
with the "incubator" nature of many of the ideas suggested so far.
(That said, I'm all for whatever arrangement works best for the
greatest number of people, so long as it leaves a clear place to
pursue this R&D work.)

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:09:05 -0600, Ed Warnicke <eaw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>My sense is that the LDT is more focused on toolkits
>needed to easily support languages.  It would be 
>nice to see a home for new language projects in 
>general.  This was the basic thought behind
>the Eclipse Dynamic BOF at Eclipsecon.
>
>What are the opinions?  Do we need a top level
>Eclipse Dynamic project to host languages like 
>Python, Perl, TCL, Ruby, PHP, etc or should
>it be a subproject of the Eclipse Tools project,
>or should it be a sub-sub-project of LDT?
>
>Ed