From kde-core-devel  Sun Oct 08 08:23:53 2006
From: Alfredo Beaumont <alfredo.beaumont () gmail ! com>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:23:53 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
Message-Id: <200610081023.54004.alfredo.beaumont () gmail ! com>
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Larunbata 07 Urria 2006 22:02(e)an, Aaron J. Seigo(e)k idatzi zuen:
> On Saturday 07 October 2006 12:39, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > The reallity why JavaScript (and an hypothetic Basic interpreter) aren't
> > sufficient for KOffice compared to ruby and python, is that neither of
> > them
>
> which, of course, flies in the face of the use of basic in microsoft's
> office products. it may not be pretty to our (developer) standards, but it
> works and a lot of people love it (sadly ;)

MS Office and OpenOffice offer a, IMHO, very limited scripting capability 
compared to what we want to offer with KOffice. Basic is not enough for that 
and we don't want to condemn our users (administrators) to that. As Boudewijn 
said, basic is the answer for one use case, which is, essentially, 
migration/compatibility of MSOffice/OOo users, but we need something else for 
other use cases.

-- 
Alfredo Beaumont Sainz
http://www.alfredobeaumont.org/blog.cgi