Subj : Re: A plea to the Open Sourcerors To : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng From : Shanti Rao Date : Tue Feb 03 2004 10:32 am Andrew Mayo wrote: > Shanti Rao wrote in message news:... > >>If you only need Windows, use my JSDB shell (search google), though it's >>overkill for what you're doing. >> >>Contrary to Andrew's initial impression, a JS shell is insufficiently >>ubiquitous to be a killer app. At least, nobody's beating down MY door. I've >>found it difficult to convince people, including techies, that JS is a real >>language and not just for web browsers. Imagine the marketing campaign: >> > > [snip] > >>In a month or two, we're going to start making JSDB cross-platform and >>open-source. Let me know if you'd like to help port it. Even better would be >>if someone wrote a remote debugging interface for Venkman. Robert wrote some >>notes on what's needed in n.p.m.jsdebugger. >> >>Shanti > > > Shanti, > > I think JSDB is one of the most amazing and important things I've seen > for a very long time, and I would be very happy to assist with your > plans to Open Source it. I have already compiled and built SeaMonkey > and gotten the optional file object working, so I have a reasonable > familiarity with the engine itself. > Flattery will get you everywhere. Some of the components are copyrighted by other companies, and I'm tracking down the rights for them. .