On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:38 +0100, Mark Carter wrote: > As regards scripting interface - I have begun interfacing with ficl. > I'm beginning to wonder if ECL (Embedded Common Lisp) might be a > really good thing to use - you get all the high levelness of Lisp, > with the integrabitlity with C.
Personally, lisp is not to my taste. > This has again raised the issue of > the desirability of a generic scripting interface, where there's a > level of separation between C and the backend language. I'm worried, > though, if it is hubris to attempt such a thing. I don't think it's hubris to implement a clean separation between C scripting API and scripting language. I think it's clear-minded sanity. Please, _please_ focus on presenting an elegant, consistent, easily-learned C API. Then anyone can paint a thin language-specific scripting layer over the top to their own taste. I've done that myself more than once, with my FICL adventures of years past. Put the time into getting the C layer right, then the FICL primitives take only minutes to code over the top. But now, I find my time is much more productively spent if I do stuff in Python, so I'll be writing a Pyrex wrapper. If your API is clean, I'll have a full Python wrapper built, debugged and documented in an afternoon or less. Heaven!! > It's something that > the Lispers, for example, have had a go at with their various > implementations, and it seems like even they've never gotten their > compatability 100% right. That might be a Lisp cultural thing. > Imagine the idea of libcinelerra combined with a scripting > environment. I think such a thing would be very popular. At the very > least, it would be useful for testing purposes. IMHO, having a 'libcinelerra' at the core is an absolute must. With a thin scripting language layer on top, it allows all manner of operations to be automated (and thus easily tested/debugged). Cheers David _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
