You mean that Java like language from Microsoft? Maybe will be known as name, but on Unix/Linux platform hard to guess that is really used by somebody....and thus having experience....And i believe that any incidental user on this platform has the minimum in Perl knowledge. So, maybe we do a vote on this, whaddaya say? :)
Cozy Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: >Except that c# is all those things too, and is also more likely to be >known to users than ruby. > >Jeff > >On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 13:45, Roberto Moral wrote: > > >>what about ruby? :) >>easy to learn, easy to code, OOP >> >>On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 13:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: >> >> >>>Evolution CVS has a means of piping messages to a process and getting >>>back (via exit code of said process) a value which can be compared >>>against to find whether or not you want to filter that message. >>> >>>At some point we plan on adding a scripting engine to Evolution so that >>>users can implement their own "wouldn't this be cool" features >>>themselves, so I'd rather not add Perl now only to remove it later in >>>favour of some other scripting language. I'd prefer to do it once and do >>>it The Right Way (tm). Besides, we will probably not want to use Perl >>>anyway, we'd probably want to use something else (first off, I don't >>>know perl and to me it's not a very attractive scripting language). I >>>know Miguel is pushing for c#, which actually kinda sounds like the best >>>idea. We've also looked at guile and python, but I don't think python's >>>interpreter was threadsafe or something, and as far as guile goes, >>>scheme is probably way over the average user's head. >>> >>>That said, this will still have to wait until at least after 1.4 is >>>released, and possibly have to wait longer. >>> >>>Jeff >>> >>>On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 12:34, Johannes Berg wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>>Launching a perl process that does alot of searching and evaluating for >>>>>>every message that comes in could get expensive. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>Hm, yes, thats true, I didn't think of that. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Ok, well, didn't think of that before, but couldn't you simply have some >>>>kind of process running that accepts mails over a socket? Then you could >>>>still use the filter system thats already in-place, pipe the message to >>>>the socket, and send back the reply from that? Then it would save all >>>>the startup time while not putting everything into evolution... >>>>Anyway, its OK with me (personally) to put it in, but I can see how it >>>>might not fit the larger picture. >>>> >>>>johannes >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers >>>> >>>> >>>-- >>>Jeffrey Stedfast >>>Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers >>> >>> >>Roberto Moral >>SR. UNIX Systems Administrator >>------------------------------------- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Tel: 609-514-8513 | cell: 609-346-5601 >>Quantiva, inc. >>100 Village Blvd. 3rd Floor >>Princeton, NJ 08540 >> >> _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
