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Subject: Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2006-10-07 20:09:20
Message-ID: 200610071409.21428.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Saturday 07 October 2006 10:51, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> It only means that you and I have very different things in mind when
> talking about scriptable applications: you are thinking about extensions
> developers who make their extensions available to users, and I am thinking
> about users and companies (even small ones) who need to write scripts for
> themselves.
while i do enjoy it when people tell me what i'm thinking, i can't quite agree
with your assessment of my thoughts in this case ;)
> Like we could with WordPerfect 4.2 or Word 2. To create some
> functionality that is needed at the user's workplace, but not necessarily
> elsewhere.
having looked at an unfortunate number of ms office documents in past lives,
this is indeed quite a common pattern. given the language these people used
for this (mostly vbscript and other more complete bastardizations of basic)
i'm failing to understand the issue.
as i noted, it's wonderful if we can provide a choice of languages (that's one
of my favourite features of postgresql, to draw on a completely out-of-band
example), but we should at least provide one throughout all of our scriptable
apps.
and this is my concern: we'll end up with 8 different choices in 8 different
apps due to the author's personal preferences or feelings on what a user is
and should be capable of doing. Cyrille noted that there is a commitment to
support js in koffice and if so, that would suffice as far as i'm concerned.
can you also confirm this is the koffice plan?
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Aaron J. Seigo
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