Hi there, I have been a long time palm treo user and my treo is my invaluable pocket office for my business. I have used scripting languages on my desktop to do all sorts of useful manipulation of the data on my treo to help prepare accounts, publish information on the web etc... I have to make sure that I use programs that offer a way to get the info out of them on my desktop. There are a few scripting languages that are available on the treo that can use the data of selected programs depending on what the developer who ported the scripting language felt important. This amounts to me not being able to find solutions to do what I want to do directly on my phone...
What I would like to see is ALL programs having a way of getting at their data from a scripting language. I don't know if it makes sense to have some guidelines for developers to make it easier for this information to be got at. This would be for someone more competent than me to suggest. I imagine it would be easier if there was a decision on a default scripting language but with so many to choose from I don't quite see that happening... (my vote goes with python even though it's by no means my favourite language but considering the amount of libraries, simplicity, documentation, user base, strong position in the open source community and the success of python on Nokia series 60 phones it would be a good idea.) As a little postscript I would also like to make a plea for making any scripting bindings as simple and easy to use as possible. I feel that things like being able to run your own scripts on a phone is what will make it possible for ordinary non-1337 folk to appreciate what freedom means. Thanks for listening, James _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community