Re: [j-devel] Using ABCL in SWING or AWT applications (with *debugger-hook*)

[Erik H. <eh...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Alessio Stalla <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> When would you like 0.15 to get out?
>
> I'm asking this because if there's little time I can quickly write
> some Java classes to do what you ask; however, since I'm also working
> on a Swing GUI DSL (in Lisp, of course), if there's enough time and
> you are comfortable with it, I could write it in Lisp.

Well, I'm explicitly saying 0.15, because that's further away than
0.14 (our next release). 0.14 is due this weekend, or at the latest
next weekend. I'm trying to have a 2-month release cycle, however, if
improvements are huge, it can be shorter. If we're lacking progress
(such as 0.12->0.13), it can be longer. It's more of a general policy
I'm trying to uphold. That said, 0.15 would be somewhere in June, I
guess.

> I think this
> could be a small but good example of how Lisp can be used to build GUI
> applications (and, *cough* it would also be a great way to test my
> DSL! ;-)

It would be great to have your DSL, I'm working on an application
which would greatly benefit from "more Lisp" :-) Anyway, 2 months is
still quite a bit of time. Possibly, we can design the API in such a
way that we can replace the implementation by a lisp-implementation
when your DSL becomes available; using a Java implementation until
then?

> Ale
>
> PS instead of Swing and AWT, I would target Swing and SWT (Eclipse) if
> I had to target two GUI libraries. A future Eclipse-based ABCL IDE

AWT is very much "the 90's", right? Well, I'm totally fine with doing
SWT and Swing then.

Bye,

Erik.