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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Python
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-09-29 19:33:16
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No I think the real reason is : lack of maintainer.

On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:59:14PM +0300, Tomas Furmonavicius wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jost Schenck wrote:
> > >> Why?
> > >
> > >Mainly ease of use, features and security.
> > 
> > ... size and CORBA-functionality.
> 
> Talking about Corba functionality, python already had Corba support (or Corba
> had python support ;-) ) in KDE. Why was it dropped ?
> 
> I won't argue about security, but what are the features in KScript Python
> doesn't have? Python at least has well done and maintained Qt/KDE bindings.
> 
> Size? Of course Qt/KDE bindings are a little bit too big (size of the
> version 0.8 library is ~4MB here and python interpreter with kde lib loaded
> uses >7% of mine 64MB of RAM}, but now they are splited to smaller parts AFAIK.
> 
> Tomas
>   

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