Bug#766486: ITP: nsf -- The Next Scripting Framework (for short: NSF) is an infrastructure for creating object-oriented scripting languages based on Tcl. See http://next-scripting.org/.

[Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig@wu.ac.at>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig@wu.ac.at>

* Package name    : nsf
  Version         : 2.0b6
  Upstream Author : Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig@wu.ac.at>
* URL             : http://next-scripting.org/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C, Tcl
  Description     : The Next Scripting Framework (for short: NSF) is an infrastructure for creating object-oriented scripting languages based on Tcl. See http://next-scripting.org/.

The Next Scripting Framework (for short: NSF) is an infrastructure for
creating object-oriented scripting languages based on Tcl. This
package provides two ready-made object-orientated extensions for Tcl
based on NSF: Next Scripting Language (NX, pronounced "next") and
Extended Object Tcl version 2 (XOTcl2, pronounced "exotickle").

NSF and the two languages are direct successors of XOTcl
(http://www.xotcl.org/), which is actively maintained as a Debian
package (jointly with the Debian Tcl/Tk packaging team).

NSF/NX, NSF/XOTcl2 and applications written using them are deployed in
and along with production-grade software systems, such as Learn@WU
(http://learn.wu.ac.at/), OpenACS (http://openacs.org/), and
AOLServer/NaviServer.

I plan to maintain the NSF Debian package inside the Debian Tcl/Tk
packaging team. In this context, I am already responsible for two other
packages. See
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=stefan.sobernig%40wu-wien.ac.at.