Re: Scripting in Gnome
- From: Tim Peoples <tim toolman org>
- To: jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
- Cc: Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>, "John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Scripting in Gnome
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:53:39 -0600
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:40, jamie wrote:
> >
> It also has a dependancy on Mozilla and is a bit overkill for what I
> intended. What I was proposing was a small lightweight *generic* script
> engine to be integrated into Gnome (with no external dependencies other
> than the official Gnome distribution). This would provide VBA style
> functionality across the desktop and be embeddable in Gnome apps (via
> bonbobo). There's no need for big heavyweights like python to do this
> and we certainly don't want Gnome to have dependancies on python or
> suchlike.
>
Yes, that's why I was leaning towards SpiderMonkey. It's small, easily
embedable, and gobs of people already know Javascript.
My belief is that my end results would only require a single shared
library in order to function properly (similar to the orignial intent
of those dreaded VBRUN.DLL files used by visual basic). Luckily, *nix
shared objects are so much better than the DLL-HELL found in
WindowsWorld.
Tim.
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Timothy E. Peoples
Have Camel, Will Code
tim toolman org
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