Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com>:
Would it make sense to poll both communities for people interested in helping with this effort and maybe making it a standalone project (perhaps on SourceForge?)?
In fact, there are many bits of the C library that Python people would like to replace or improve but we don't have the resources alone. Maybe if all of the scripting language groups got together we would be able to do it. I'm not talking about the larger project of sharing bytecodes and so forth, but I could see that we probably have very similar needs with respect to files, memory allocation, networking, event loops, process handling and maybe threads. And the other scripting languages are probably not too far off either.
I think this is a good idea in itself. And would also be a good pilot project for the Parrot unification. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. -- David Friedman