On Monday 22 January 2007 15:33, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote: > Let me rephrase then. Have it defined as a standard-optional component that > can be used. But isn't installed by default. Won't ipkg have dependency > resolution etc? >
Yes, so the dependency aspect will likely be a non-issue; hopefully! > So have official/unofficial packages that handle the major scripting > languages. That way it's possible to have any scripting language used. > Definitely an adequate situation, as far as I can see; and additionally appears to be the model that the OpenMoko folks have perhaps already decided upon, seeing how there is currently no mention of a scripting interpreter in the platform specification. The only potential downfall may be that everyone ends up with quite a few interpreters on their poor little phones... python, ruby, rhino, lua, perl, etc, etc.. ... which of course may just end up happening anyhow, even should there be a standard default scripting environment defined on the platform. At any rate, I sure fear the sort of language war that could develop if a particular scripting language was to be selected! As far as I'm personally concerned though, I'd end up using whatever that choice happened to be, but many others a likely to have a much less relaxed attitude on the matter. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community