Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in possibly reviving the integrated Python > scripting in Mahogany.
Me too, eventually. Currently, I can do without Python scripting. But the availability of Python scripting as advertised on the website was one of the reasons I checked out M. AFAIR it doesn't work so well, currently?! > I'm a complete newcomer to this project and before diving in, wish to ask > what issues I might face. > > Could someone tell me what are the problems associated with such an > effort. I would be interested in using Python 2.2.1 (the latest). I > have embedded the Python interpreter before, I also have some experience writing diverse Python extensions. > but have no knowledge of Mahogany source code (yet). As I understand the > Python scripting capability, there was/is Python code interfacing to the > internal C++ object model of Mahogany. Yep. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mahogany/M/src/Python/ Using SWIG. Ugh. I didn't understand one bit of SWIG when I browsed the wxPython sources a while ago. > While I'm on the subject, I'll just toss in a possibly helpful link to my > favorite C++/Python interfacing tool, the Boost Python Library. > http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html (It is changing because of > the type/class unifications in Python 2.2.) This is my favourite, too. Then, nothing comes for a while. Then comes just writing the damn extension module myself in C. > Another semi-related question -- What about a wxPython port of Mahogany? Writing a MUA in wxPython is an idea I had myself for a while. Unfortunately, there are several unfinished Python MUAs out there. One of them, a pyGTK one, shreded my IMAP server, so I had to reconstruct it with a script :-( I consequently will never look at it again. There's another long abandoned wxPython client called rzMail. > Does anyone think that would be worthwhile? Normally, I'm all for Python instead of C++, as it is much more productive to code in Python. My guess is that an hour Python coding gets you as far as 3 or 4 hours of C++ coding. For an inexperienced C++ programmer like me, the multiplier is a lot higher, of course. Performance isn't a problem in my experience, except for very little parts of a MUA, threading perhaps being one. OTOH M is pretty advanced now, so I'm sceptical a rewrite would be a good idea at this time. Perhaps for Mahogany v2? :-) Gerhard ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
