Re: Helma NG now in main svn repository

> Hi Hannes,
>
> The helma-ng development looks very interesting, good to see it up and
> running again. Even though I'm originally a Java programmer, I think
> being able to implement much more of helma within js will hopefully open
> it up to a bigger dev community of contributors.
>
> The new skin "inheritance" matches the development pattern I've been
> using for a while now: having "wrapper" skins contain a macro for
> res.data.body into which I would put the results of renderAsString for
> different pages. S thumbs up from me with for that.
> I'm not likely to be implementing an alternative rendering framework, so
>  I can't comment much on the new callback approach, but from a user
> point of view, I'm very happy to see that the new implementation seems
> backward compatible with current skin usage.
> And with subskins, personally I havn't used subskins that much so far as
> I think they may be a bit confusing for non-programmers but I can see
> how they work well with skin inheritance as you hav ein the demo code.
>
> For my part, I'm having a go at a simple persistence layer for NG using
> the JSAdapter and "almsot native" JS object rather then host HopObjects,
> so having the automatic JSAdapter for moduel scopes is proving handy
> though I'm still working out some problems with my code so I dont have
> anything to post yet.
>
> One other thing is that I've been using current helma/File.js module
> quite well with NG (just by removing the "global.helma..." code check at
> the start and  "helma.lib..." and the end of the file so perhaps it
> could be added to ng's svn repo next? as its a rather handy module :-)
>
> thanks,
> Maks.
>
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