> If the design is done right, then AbiWord will work even if no > Python/Scheme/*your-favorite-scripting-language* is installed in your > PC - just it'll not do scripts. So you'd not need to suffer from > excess luggage.
AbiWord has a decent scripting framework in place which makes it possible to script it in pretty much anything decent. Joaquine has done loads of work on Perl bindings, and the Unix port can be scripted using Perl (there are bits and pieces of the code that are unix specific, namely, it wants unistd.h and dirent.h; this, obviously needs to be fixed). Now, there is no reason why Perl should be the only language supported -- all that is required is for someone to write the code to inteface with the interpreter; I believe there is a Python plugin already, but am not sure how far advanced it is. I think we would benefit from some simple scripting language very easy to use, something so simple that the church secretary might be able to use that for very basic stuff. Tomas
