Subj : On BAJA development
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 06:00 pm

  Re: On BAJA development
  By: Angus McLeod to All on Thu Sep 08 2005 01:57 pm

 > What with JS seemingly taking a preeminent place in SBBS programming, is
 > there any room for discussion of BAJA improvements?

Not really. I mean, it can be discussed, but I'd prefer not to waste any energy
on enhancing Baja. Bug-fixes are of course still being persued. So I guess it
depends on your defintion of "improvement". :-)

 > It seems to me that
 > while BAJA will no doubt be supported for some considerable time to come
 > (and talks of SBBS v4.0 are fairly common these days) the use of BAJA
 > appears to be 'depreciated'.

I'm working on making Baja dispensable. It's not quite there yet, but will be
in the v4 time-frame. At that time, Baja will be officially deprecated. In the
mean time, if you can achieve what you want to achieve using JS instead, that
is strongly encouraged.

JS can do much more than Baja in a much more elegate fashion, but there are
still a few minor functions Baja can do that JS cannot (yet). And command
shells are still required to be .BIN files, for the time being. So for command
shells, a Baja "stub" is required until such time as JS command shells are
natively supported.

I plan on supporting compiled Baja modules and command shells for the
foreseeable future. This may be accomplished with a JS-based .bin interpreter
(as Deuce invisions) at some point, but that's not a forgone conclusion.

                                                  digital man

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