Re: Scala IO Action items.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
>>> (1) will be shipped with 2.8
>>
>> Do you really see this as critical? Is the lack of standard
>> Scala-specific I/O APIs really holding back adoption of Scala on that
>> short a timescale?
>
> Adoption of Scala is not the only goal, surely.

Agreed, but I don't see how that has any bearing on the urgency ...
well, if anything, it suggests that the urgency is low and we should
take the time to do it right.

Cheers,

Miles

Didn't know of scalax.io... but yes, if we already have that then all the more reason to not be premature in pushing this for release.
It'll only come back to bite us if we rush!



On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Kevin
Wright<kev.lee.wright@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason why scala.io snapshots can't be released early as a
> separate jar, then merged back into scala core for the next release?
>
> That way, folks can still have the reassurance that they're using s stable
> supported scala release and minimize exposure to bleeding-edge stuff in the
> io library.

Why can't prototypes continue to live under scalax.io (or whatever)
until we've got something that's suitable for inclusion in the
standard library?

We should guard the scala.* prefix at least as carefully as the java.*
prefix has been.

Cheers,


Miles

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