Except that c# is all those things too, and is also more likely to be known to users than ruby.
Jeff On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 13:45, Roberto Moral wrote: > what about ruby? :) > easy to learn, easy to code, OOP > > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 13:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > Evolution CVS has a means of piping messages to a process and getting > > back (via exit code of said process) a value which can be compared > > against to find whether or not you want to filter that message. > > > > At some point we plan on adding a scripting engine to Evolution so that > > users can implement their own "wouldn't this be cool" features > > themselves, so I'd rather not add Perl now only to remove it later in > > favour of some other scripting language. I'd prefer to do it once and do > > it The Right Way (tm). Besides, we will probably not want to use Perl > > anyway, we'd probably want to use something else (first off, I don't > > know perl and to me it's not a very attractive scripting language). I > > know Miguel is pushing for c#, which actually kinda sounds like the best > > idea. We've also looked at guile and python, but I don't think python's > > interpreter was threadsafe or something, and as far as guile goes, > > scheme is probably way over the average user's head. > > > > That said, this will still have to wait until at least after 1.4 is > > released, and possibly have to wait longer. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 12:34, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > > Launching a perl process that does alot of searching and evaluating for > > > > > every message that comes in could get expensive. > > > > > > > > Hm, yes, thats true, I didn't think of that. > > > > > > Ok, well, didn't think of that before, but couldn't you simply have some > > > kind of process running that accepts mails over a socket? Then you could > > > still use the filter system thats already in-place, pipe the message to > > > the socket, and send back the reply from that? Then it would save all > > > the startup time while not putting everything into evolution... > > > Anyway, its OK with me (personally) to put it in, but I can see how it > > > might not fit the larger picture. > > > > > > johannes > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > > -- > > Jeffrey Stedfast > > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > Roberto Moral > SR. UNIX Systems Administrator > ------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 609-514-8513 | cell: 609-346-5601 > Quantiva, inc. > 100 Village Blvd. 3rd Floor > Princeton, NJ 08540 -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
