On Friday 28 March 2008 09:48:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2008, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > This is not a problem for your typical, current, desktop PC. But many
> > linux-friendly devices are being deployed where memory and disk space are
> > limited resources (the Classmate, the Eee PC... more models seem on their
> > way),
>
> the first gen EEE PC comes with python on it already; the next generation
> devices will have even more storage. so these really aren't the devices
> that we need to be worried about here. when we're talking about "can we fit
> a python interpreter" on it, we're talking small devices like phones,
> ultraportable tablets, blackberries, etc..
>

All right; I do not oppose Python specifically, but I'm worried of a chain 
reaction where all kinds of interpreters get used all over the modules. 
I'd rather have one blessed scripting language, but I fear that's going to be 
a policy problem...

> > so, while I agree that having interpreted code for settings and
> > rarely executed programs is a valid choice, I'd rather at least have one
> > "blessed" language for this kind of modules.
>
> honestly, a bigger real world problem here is fitting these dialogs on the
> screen size of these devices. as you get to small devices, i find that
> things like guidance run out of screen space first ;)
>

Yes, we need to work on that part too, obviously.

> > That may be Python, or something else... I'd prefer one of the ecmascript
> > interpreters we ship, actually...
>
> for in-application scripting, absolutely. for full apps, something with
> more available libraries, more application dev appropriate docs, etc would
> be nice. in fact, many of the things that make ecmascript really great for
> in application scripting are hindrances for full app devel ime.
>

Well, we are talking of configuration modules just now, aren't we? Not "real" 
applications.

> > It would be nice if we had one javascript interpreters instead of two--
> > soon three, but that's another problem.
>
> a third? oi.. whre's this?

we have KJS and QtScript... and JavaScriptCore, as soon as 4.4 is released. Am 
I miscounting? Not all may be used for scripting, but still we'll have three.

Luciano