Re: [GOK] gok and gnome 3.0

[Ben Konrath <ben konrath utoronto ca>]

Hi Steve,

On 09/23/2009 04:12 AM, Steve Lee wrote:

> +1 to Python
> 
> 1) pyatspi is mature, stable, is very easy to use and well proven
> though its use in Orca, Accesserciser and others.
> 2) Accerciser, Orca etc provide code examples that are up-to-date.
> 3) Orca encapsulates a large body of AT development experience
> 4) There is growing expertise in Python in the accessibility community
> and wider GNOME community.
> 5) Having developed extensively with C/C++ and Python I find Python
> offers many advantages for developing AT.
> 
> Python and C play well together so it might be possible to package
> some existing GOK code as modules, depending on current architecture.
> The reverse is also possible, embedding a Python interpreter in C, but
> I suspect that is less likely to be useful..
> 
> The problems I found when working on Jambu were all due to the atspi
> spec leaving much to the interpretation of individual programs and not
> due to pyatspi (especially events and dynamic behaviour).

Thanks for this information - it's very useful.

> I'm also not sure of the status of cspi - I thought it was depreciated
> (or was that before cspi2)?