Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Chipzz wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> >
> >>support disabled. That said we think that python support is a really
> >>important feature and it's having a huge success (I have seen more
> >>plugins in the last month than in the last two years). I'd love that
> >
> > A comment here which not only refers to gedit, but also to those other
> > apps which are creating plugins: do we actually have a standard consis-
> > tant cross-application framework for scripting? I don't know how good
> > VBA is at this, but I think we cannot have a different approach for e-
> > very other application like gnumeric and abiword and gedit etc... Did
> > anyone actually bother to think this through?
>
> yes but we are waiting for gobject's full introspection to materialise
> to make this possible (IE it will give us language independent COM like
> functionality which is what VBA uses for scripting).

You should realize that if you release, you have a public API which you
are bound to... even more than to library API's (cause end-users are un-
likely to port...).

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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