Re: New Module Proposal. libseed

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:20 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Xan Lopez <xan gnome org> wrote:
> > We don't maintain the runtimes, we maintain the integration between
> > those runtimes and the platform. AFAIK we do this for a lot of other
> > languages, like Python, Perl, Scheme, Java...
> >
> 
> While I agree with the main spirit of your point, the analogy doesn't
> *quite* hold because JS defines much less of a platform than those
> things (which is the whole point of using JS of course!).
> 
> So with JS, we're defining the module system, and defining the
> equivalent of python's "os" module, and so forth.

Which I see as an advantage, because it uses the platform's facilities
instead of installing a parallel set of system functions.

	Xav