folks, hi, at the europython sprint, i made this patch to 2D Canvas in xulrunner today: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502234
the background is that this is the last piece of the puzzle so that pyjamas-desktop's examples can all work, properly. the last piece is getting SVG 2D Canvas to be accessible so that you can use python to write SVG 2D Canvas desktop applications. basically, i encountered an issue - a design flaw - in the python bindings (with optional arguments). the flaw - the assumption - is that the functions will always be called from javascript, and so the function call arguments (which can in javascript be of arbitrary length) are all accessible inside XUL. by patching XUL, i've made it possible for python-xpcom to gain access to the three most popular (and necessary) arguments of drawImage. already as you can see, one of the mozilla developers has made it clear that he believes that, although the patch may be necessary for pyjamas-desktop and necessary for all python-xpcom applications, they just don't care: Javascript is all that they care about. this would be a bad precedent to let the mozilla developers get away with such arbitrary decision-making, which, taken at face value, basically turns mozilla into a closed proprietary platform. please therefore can i ask people to register on bugzilla.mozilla.org and voice their concerns on the bugreport in some way, so that the python-xpcom technology not be left out, here, by arbitrary and "closed shop" decision making. if you do not voice your concerns, and the patch is not accepted, then you will need to patch xulrunner yourselves in order to utilise python bindings to SVG 2D Canvas, which, i am sure, you would find much more burdensome than just being able to install pre-compiled packages as provided direct from the mozilla dev team. many thanks, l. _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
