Re: [tcljava-dev] How much alive is jacl ?

[Mo D. <su...@ba...>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:25:50 -0800
"Raffaele Sena" <ra...@ar...> wrote:

> Hello there!

Hi Raffaele.

> 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 ?

It is alive, but there has not been any active development
recently. That does not mean there is anything wrong
with it. It just means folks don't have time to donate
right now.

> 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).

Redirection is not really supported by the Jacl exec command.
I think this is mentioned in the docs. It might work with some
shell tricks but you would be using sh redirection not redirects
done by Tcl.

> 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.

Jacl is *most* of Tcl, but there are some things that are not implemented.
The diffs.txt file that comes with Jacl describes most of the diffs. More
features are implemented in the CVS development version as well, so
that is something to keep in mind. Feel free to ask questions if you
can't find the info you need in the docs.

cheers
Mo DeJong