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Re: Porting to darwinports: msg#00013

Subject: Re: Porting to darwinports
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:26:15PM -0500, woods@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:45:32PM -0600, woods@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I just stumbled upon the SISC, and from a first glance think that it
> > > offers an excellent means of developing applications for J2EE.
> > >
> > > Here's a simple request though:  Would someone consider porting it
> > over to
> > > Mac OSX's darwinports?  I'm certain that it would help tremendously
> > in
> > > popularizing SISC.  A lot of schemers are already Mac-heads.
> >
> > I certainly hope so.  But Matthias and I are both Linux on x86 users.
> > Anyone else out there willing and able to package it?
> >
> >     Scott
> >
> 
> My apologies.  It appears that SISC has already been ported to darwinports!
> 
> The portname is called SISC (for some reason I was searching under scheme
> and found mzscheme but not sisc).  I've just installed it, and am happily
> trying it out.

Even better!

> 
> Now to get he Mac-heads to use this more...
> 
> Is there anything that Groovy, Jython, or JRuby can do in terms of
> bridging with Java libraries and the JVM and interoperating with Java
> semantics that SISC cannot?

If any of them compile classes on the fly, its possible that they may be 
able to extend classes from the dynamic language.  This is a feature 
we'd like to add in the not too distance future.  One can implement 
interfaces quite easily using the define-java-proxy functionality 
however.

        Scott

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