Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-05 Thread Sean Corfield
A specific case: when I worked at Adobe, we could not use any open source library whose license was not one of a standard set of pre-approved licenses. During a license audit (oh joy!) I had to approach a couple of OSS projects we had started to use in order to persuade them to change their lice

Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-05 Thread Jason Felice
I've never seen synthread. I'll investigate in probably a few days. On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Jozef Wagner wrote: > Thanks for releasing this library. How does it compare to the synthread > library [1] [2] ? Seems like both libraries have the same goal. > > Jozef > > [1] https://github.c

Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-03 Thread Jozef Wagner
Thanks for releasing this library. How does it compare to the synthread library [1] [2] ? Seems like both libraries have the same goal. Jozef [1] https://github.com/LonoCloud/synthread [2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Macros-Monads -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-03 Thread James Reeves
Some software companies, particularly larger ones, are careful about the licenses of software they use in their products. With a standard open source license it's often easy to get approval, because licenses like MIT are very common. Software with a custom license is trickier, because it's not a c

Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-03 Thread Jason Felice
Hi! I'm pretty familiar with legal license stuff (though IANAL). I wouldn't mind considering changing it at the point where someone wants to use it but can't - because that would carry with it a specific reason we can think about. -Jason On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:03 PM, James Reeves wrote: >

Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-02 Thread James Reeves
The non-standard license might make using this library difficult to use for some companies. You may want to consider using an existing open source license that's broadly similar, such as MIT. - James On 2 May 2014 09:00, Fabien Todescato wrote: > Thanks for that great work ! Reminds me of simi

Re: [ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-05-02 Thread Fabien Todescato
Thanks for that great work ! Reminds me of similar techniques in the context of logic programming : http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/edcg.html :) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegro

[ANN] packthread 0.1.0

2014-04-30 Thread Jason Felice
packthread Threading macros for working with globs of state. Why? Many descriptions about state in Clojure fit into the following form: State is hard to reason about, and so we use pure functions in Clojure. But then we have a prob