From: Julian Fitzell <julian@...4.com>
Date: 2004-05-09T06:00:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Differences between Iowa and Borges; was Re: What is Borges?

Just as a further piece of information, the Borges you're all talking 
about (for Ruby) is a port of Borges for Smalltalk.  Borges is what we 
called the new kernel of Seaside 2.x while it was in development.  The 
name never really stuck though and we mostly just refer to Seaside2 now, 
but if you read the quote at http://www.beta4.com/seaside2/ you'll see 
where the name Borges comes from.

The Borges kernel docs are at http://beta4.com/seaside2/borges.html in 
case anyone is interested in taking a look.  It's pretty low-level (not 
designed for end-users) and isn't at all up-to-date for the 2.5.x series 
that is currently in alpha.

Cheers,

Julian

Chad Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 8 May 2004 16:55:01 +0900, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> 
>>>* They are both pretty neat, even though they really have more
>>>differences than similarities.  Borges definitely pushes the
>>>innovation envelope more than Iowa does.  Iowa is more conventional.
>>
>>So far, Borges is on par with Seaside 2.3 for the purposes of evaluating
>>innovation.
>>
> 
> 
> Just to clarify Eric, what do you mean by this exactly?  Do you mean
> that Borges has innovated as much as Seaside has or that Borges is
> essentially the same as Seaside, so the innovations from Seaside have
> been included?
> 
> The SVG stuff sounds pretty neat.  I didn't realize that Borges had an
> active mailing list.  I'll add that to my too-long list of
> subscriptions. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Chad
>