On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Christopher Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> As I've been out of the loop for a while, I figured it would be best to ask
> this question on both the CS and the CEL mailing lists.
>
> My project (Precursors, for those that remember it) stalled about a year
> ago. We've finally gotten back to dusting things off, and we've been working
> on is as a normal C++ project. However, many of the developers have
> expressed a desire to code some/all of it in python. The ability to use
> twisted (Python network library) was one major topic of conversation.
>
> Is is currently possible to have a 'pure' python CS or CEL application? I
> know that CS/CEL will need to be there, as will any python libraries we use,
> but deployment can be tackled. I just want to know if it can even be done at
> this point in time.
>
Yes that's no problem.
>
>
> Secondly, if it can be done, realistically, how difficult will development
> be? CS is and will always be a C++ library. Python extensions are great, but
> the learning curve is horrible if there's no good, up to date documentation.
> A 'Beginner's guide' to writing a CS python application would be a huge
> start... does such a thing exist? Is there any documentation at all? What
> about examples?
>
Python is very well supported by CS and CEL. Apricot uses it as the main
language for game logic.
Crystal Core (once I get time for it) will be ported to Python. I can
certainly recommend it. Pablo
(caedes) has done a lot of work in make the python integration really very
good.
>
>
> I guess the final question would be this: has anyone seriously tried active
> development on a python CS application?
>
Lots of people do. I think it is one of the main ways to do CS/CEL
development right now.
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