[tcljava-dev] How much alive is jacl ?

[Raffaele S. <ra...@ar...>]

Hello there!

I am looking for a scripting language to use
for the (java based) application server I
am working on.

I knew of the exiestence of Jacl but never really
looked into it until now. Today I finally decided
to give it a try and actually it does do pretty much
everything I need.

My only concern is, is Jacl still alive ? And how
alive is it ?

Today while playing with it I found a small problem
with the exec command ( sh, at least on linux, doesn't
like the redirection tokens to be quoted and because of
this things like "exec ls -l > /tmp/out" does not work.
Also the redirect to fileid - >@ and such - is not implemented).

No big deal. The code is very readable and some of these
things can be easily fixed. I am just wondering how many
of these problems I am going to find (what I found today
doesn't seem to be reported anywhere) and how much support
will I get to fix them. I'll be happy to contribute to the
project, but I wouldn't want to spend more time working on
jacl than on my project.

Any comment is appreciated.

-- Raffaele

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