From kde-core-devel  Sun Oct 01 11:07:36 2006
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:07:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
Message-Id: <200610011307.39293.boud () valdyas ! org>
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On Sunday 01 October 2006 12:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> >However it's clear that a scripting language would be a good thing to
> > have. So the only solution I can see is to decide on an "official"
>
> There's a world of difference between a scripting language that allows one
> to extend an existing application and a scripting language to write a
> full application on.
>
> For the former case, we already have decided on the official language and
> it's JavaScript. We already have the interpreter in KDELibs (KJS).

Not for Koffice, fortunately. We have Kross, which makes it really easy to=
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offer one scripting interface that works with any language for which there'=
s=20
an interpreter plugin. We first used kjs for Krita's scripting language, bu=
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it was a pain to provide bindings to the objects we wanted to expose to=20
script writers, and it was a pain to write scripts.

> For the latter case, there's no decision on official language, since there
> doesn't have to be. Applications can be written using any binding. But,
> as this thread has proven, the basic applications must be in C++ so that
> memory consumption stays low.

I haven't seen "proof", just some assertions, but aside from that, hadn't w=
e=20
better define a list of "the basic applications" then -- Leo's list is=20
obviously much too large. If the list of basic applications for which C++ i=
s=20
required, then people who prefer a little more efficiency in their=20
development process know what's left for them.

And I think it will be impossible to reach a concensus about a mandated=20
non-C++ language.

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