On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:07:30AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:42:17PM +0100, Michael Treibton wrote: > > - What about third-party scripting languages? How do we handle that > > without requiring linking against the specific language in question? > > > > i don't know if all three are related to scripting core, but what does > > the last item mean? is that relating to a choice of language? > > It's explicitly stating that I would be unhappy linking mvwm against a > specific language that has a C API (perl, lua, ruby, etc.) if we ever > chose a preferred language. Rather, I'd like to see a > language-agnostic interface which any third-party language could use > to make use of whatever API/bindings we might come up with.
My opinion is exactly the same. > We don't do this at the moment, and perllib is the only thing which > tries to bridge the interface of itself with fvwm, but it does so in a > very clumsy way; were such a common interface defined, it'd be a lot > better, IMO. I think the perllib was a direct reaction from Mikhael to my special ModuleListenOnly implemented as a zsh script. :-D Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
