On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote: > I think "is it actively maintained?" is not a particularly interesting > question for a community. The question is: "is this a useful library?" Then: > "is the original author maintaining it?" And then, if not: "who will pick it > up?"
Well, I'd hope that we can find (active) maintainers for libraries that are actually useful :) I got an email off-list asking what to do about code that relies on clojure.contrib.str-utils2 with a link to documentation on the richhickey.github.com repo. That namespace isn't even in the list of contrib modules in https://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/tree/master/modules so I can only assume it was migrated to clojure.string as part of Clojure 1.2.0 (along with c.c.string and c.c.str-utils). For me, that's "pre-history". As Clojure continues to grow in popularity, that will be pre-history for the vast majority of Clojure users too - for anyone who picks up Clojure first via 1.3.0. Anything we can do to clean up outdated documentation, web pages, blogs and so on will help all those who come along from this point on. The pain of migrating from Contrib 1.2.0 (or earlier) to the New Contrib Libraries (whether you stay on Clojure 1.2.x or move to Clojure 1.3.0) is a one-time "tax" for early adopters and, as unpleasant as that may be, I expect future migrations to be easier even if Clojure introduces breaking changes because the libraries that make this jump are more likely to continue to be actively maintained (as long as they remain useful). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
