Maybe "vote" was a wrong choosen word. "Poll" i wanted to say. I was not 
following the democatic consensus...just the basic idea what's going on 
in evolution users minds.

What you say, might be true, but a software is build for consumers. Take 
MS Word..how many features has, and how many have you used? Want that 
Evolution to be in the same situation? What if we find out that less 
that 1% of evolution users really want that (scripting), and from that 
only a 10th will really use it??

While MS affords to pay programmers for that features, may i remind you 
that Evolution is not in the same position. Or i am wrong?

I think that for that the posibility to pipe to/from an external program 
it solves the most of the problems proposed by users. Then everybody can 
use what ever he can use: Perl, Tcl, C#, etc.

Cozy

PeterKorman wrote:

>Democratic consensus is not a source of software excellence.
>
>--JPK
>
>On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:58:21AM +0200, Costin Cozan wrote:
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>>that's exactly why we should vote. What is the most used ( or 
>>preferred)  scripting language/system for evolution users?
>>why could not be pluggable...? then you would have to maintain just the 
>>interface....
>>
>>I am sure the moment it happens, next "day" we have a Evolution::[..] on 
>>CPAN..;) 
>>
>>Aaah, good you reminded me of c# ; .NET is a platform where you can 
>>program or script in any language that supports. why not designing the 
>>same for Evolution?? Like making it the universal email tool? ....
>>
>>.... but, the dream finish suddenly...:)
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>>Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:04, Costin Cozan wrote:
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>>>>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....
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>>>That will change.
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>>i don't see that, sorry.Just  tell me how i can program c# on my linux 
>>box...
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>>>>And i believe that any 
>>>>incidental user on this platform has the minimum in Perl knowledge.
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>>>I don't, and I know quite a few other Unix hackers who don't know perl
>>>either. So you'd be wrong with this guess.
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>>then they are not Unix hackers. [To all] Am I right?
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>>>c# at least is OO and easy to learn. Not so with perl.
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>>Just wondering, since when OO is simpler to understand  and perl is 
>>hard? After 10 minutes reading a book of perl, you can already do major 
>>tasks. With OOP, you have to read a whole book ( ore more) just to get 
>>the idea. And yes, i am talking about normal persons using Evolution.
>>
>>
>>However, i don't advocate Perl or any other preferred language. they all 
>>shoud have I am sure that there are other solutions that go better with 
>>other languages.
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>>And if in final C# will be the choice, then so be it. Hey, we could take 
>>the chance to learn it!! ;)
>>
>>Cozy
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