Joe P. Cool wrote: > In 2005 I heard of plans to add Python as a second language to the > Gecko engine. Is this still true? Or has this plan been abandoned? >
You can use Python inside of Mozilla (Gecko) based applications now, such as Firefox/Thunderbird/Komodo Edit/XulRunner which communicate through the Mozilla XPCOM architecture. There are builds of PyXPCOM (Python XPCOM) that can be downloaded and easily installed through the xpi extension mechanism, see: http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/ The Mozilla 1.9 branch (Gecko 1.9) also contains the hooks necessary to be able to use Python as a script handler, instead of having to use JavaScript. This is commonly referred to as PyDOM. To get and use PyXPCOM (Mozilla 1.8 and Mozilla 1.9): * install the above extension * or make your own build of the Mozilla application To get and use PyDOM (Mozilla 1.9): * you'll need to make your own build of the Mozilla application I'm the one working on the PyXPCOM extension, which I am hoping will eventually contain the PyDOM module as well (once I get around to making new Mozilla builds with this enabled). Cheers, Todd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
