Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>
- Cc: gnome-devel-list gnome org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed
- Date: 19 Mar 2001 15:45:43 -0500
Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com> writes:
> > > I think we are all getting somewhat off the subject. The post that I originally
> > > replied to proposed making perl, python and lisp *REQUIREMENTS* for gnome. To me
> > > (and at least one other), that is not an option and if you do so, you will lose
> > > me as a user / developer / distributor / advocate.
> >
> > Yes, I was proposing to suggest programmers writing small utilities for gnome
> > to use scripting languages, that would be mean requiring user to install those
> > scripting languages for running these utilities.
> >
> > Currently gnome is shipped with 4 major packages that require scripting
> > languages:
> > * sawfish - it requires rep (a dialect of lisp) - all logic is written in lisp
> > * gnucash - uses guile internally for all logic
> > * sketch (vector editor) written in python
> > * gimp - most of plugins are written in guile and some in perl
> >
> > Did you experienced any performance and memory issues with them that can be
> > attributed to the choice of language?
> > I doubt very much..
> >
>
> I don't know. I don't run those apps. Actually, I take that back. I tried sawfish
> and not only was it a total bitch to compile, but it was slower than hell. It actually
> took about two seconds for the window titlebar menu to pop down on a PII450 w/ 192
> RAM. Totally unacceptable.
The reason why it was slow is that it starts a separate process to display
the menus. Completely architecture, nothing to do with language.
I was using Tcl/Tk on a 486-33 and it was fine. (And Tcl as it existed then
was a much slower language than the languages being discussed here.)
Regards,
Owen
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