Re: Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-12 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
While I lack time and experience to work on such a project, I think that it's great to see someone working on a Hebrew text editor. I agree with all those who say that such an editor should include a scripting language. And no, C does not count as a scripting language. If the user needs to recom

Re: Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-10 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > > However one of Matan's highest priorities is a lightweight word > > processor. > > Exactly! And C is much more heavyweight then Python . > > Overhead of Python's library: 567K on my system (including everything

Re: Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-10 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > I think I might have overstated my fear of bloat. Then start fear as much as you stated: as a maintainer of a project, you're the only person responsible enough to stop it from bloating. > If I though using gtk or qt would help me in that goal, I'd >

Re: Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > However one of Mathan's highest priorities is a lightweight word > processor. Exactly! And C is much more heavyweight then Python . Overhead of Python's library: 567K on my system (including everything one has to distribute with embedded Python. This proba

Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > > > I think this is the first thing you should support. Especially as it is > > not that hard and I believe that you'll get cooperation from Chen Shapira. > > And, if he chooses either Tcl or Python, some support