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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] visual feature guide
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-11 10:40:42
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0901110240m2cee45c7v5f6348d296c56ac6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Giancarlo Niccolai <gc@falconpl.org> wrote:
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> Sebastian Sauer ha scritto:
> > Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > [edit] Libraries & development platform
> > > * New Kross engine: Falcon
> > 
> > What diserves some more lines then a one-liner imho cause falcon rocks
> and we
> > (KDE) do pioneer work here by being the first larger consumer (most
> > distributions ship FalconPL already but business as usual it doesn't
> got that
> > much attention yet cause developers usually suck a PR :-)
> > 
> > My proposal;
> > We can probably come up with 3-5 sentences directed to developers to catch
> > some attention and then link to http://www.falconpl.org which does provide
> > tons of additional details, samples, etc.
> > 
> > This mail was cc'd to Giancarlo who's the FalconPL mastermind and in
> general
> > an ueber-developer :)~ Any idea, Giancarlo, what may the most selling
> words
> > to describe why Falcon is better then anything else out there (guess
> > the "procedural, object oriented, prototype oriented, functional,
> tabular and
> > message oriented" does describe it already pretty well but it's imho a
> bit to
> > abstract).
> Uhm... I kinda love the idea.

Hi Giancarlo,

I was wondering how the status of Falcon in KDE 4.2 is/will be... I am
not a developer so I barely understand what it is. Yet it would be
good to mention it in the feature guide, IF it is usable for
developers. Could you come up with a description along the lines of
what Sebastian proposed? It would give some exposure to Falcon ;-)

No need for fancy texts, if you can describe it in a way a
non-developer like me gets it, I'll fancy-up the text for inclusion.
In other words, a braindump is OK. Try to think about what these kross
bindings can do for KDE developers?!? eg plugins in apps, writing new
apps, I dunno...

> Pitifully, I am currently dragged behind by a plethora of details and
> I have not yet been able to complete the automatic binder, which will
> generate automated and always up-to-date bindings.
> 
> I'd really need some help, as there are too many aspects in need of
> care in this moment. Developers willing to try out Falcon and help in
> developing some cool binding are the things I need the most.
> 
> I am in continual contact with Dennis Clarke, the manager of
> Blastwave, the community project porting open source things to
> OpenSolaris (we met because they were porting KDE)... and he's hooked
> on Falcon. It's going to be the Language of Choice of the distro. He's
> an excellent copywriter, so I think we can sort out some interesting
> idea together.
> 
> If anyone is interested in helping out, we are already very advanced
> in our automatic module binding system (it already works for C); it's
> a matter to step in and help joining the numbered dots.
> 
> Let me think at something, and if you have any idea, plz tell me.
> 
> Giancarlo.
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