Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
PyXPCom allows developpers to Python to write components for/with the
Mozilla platform, with more ease than the "native" Mozilla languages
provide (i.e. C++ and JavaScript).
PyXPCom might (or might not) help turn Mozilla into a fully open
.Net-like platform.
Source: PyXPCom is part of the official Mozilla source tree and can be
added with --enable-extensions=python/xpcom. It can also be compiled and
distributed separately, although I do not know how.
A patch proposed in [1] might be necessary to get PyXPCom to compile
with recent versions of Mozilla and/or Python.
There is already a backported debian package available at [2], linked
against mozilla 1.5 and python 2.2 and not source-compatible with more
recent versions of mozilla/python.
[1] http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pyxpcom/1902244
[2] http://cmeerw.org/debian/
Thank you,
David
