So you dont like TCL? Its small. Itz fast. Itz stable. And you get bonus points for making RS really angry;-)
http://www.vanderburg.org/Tcl/war/ --JPK On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:30:52PM +0930, Not Zed wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 23:33, Andrew E. Page wrote: > > Has anyone added a perl interpreter into Evolution? I would like to use > > perls "Spam Assassin" module to filter spam. > > > > If no one is currently taking this on, I'd like to get a CVS snapshot of > > the code and see about embedding the perl interpreter myself. > > We plan to implement an extension system at some point. I've done some > research into it, and if i have anything to do with it: > - it will not be perl. the language sux to maintain and it's heavy to > add. > - it will not be ruby, it is not mt (posix) or even capable of running > multiple interpreters (unfortunately, i liked the look of it) > - it wont be python. extensions are a lot of code, the language sux > - it wont be ecma/javascript, or java > - it might be mono's CIL, tho that depends on how heavy/useful it > is/hard to integrate, and whether there's any real scripting language > frontend for it (if we're gunna use c-hash we may as well stick to c) > - it might be guile. it would be better if it was mt safe but its > getting there & u can run multiple interpreters, and is in active > devel. its easy to hook in & does gc in a compatible manner. > - it cant be corba based as its too bulky to implement, and orbit is a > big problem with mt code > > of course once the hooks for any language are in, adding more could be > done via modules or something. in the end id like to have significant > functionality moved into the script language too. which is why it needs > to be something jeff and i in particular are comfortable with, and needs > to interact well with existing c code from both above and below. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers -- _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
