Trent Mick wrote: > hg wrote: >> Trent Mick wrote: >>>> My need is as follows: I have developed an activex component to >>>> access a >>>> smart card on the client side / do some web site logon. >>>> >>>> Are xpcom / pyxpcom advanced/stable enough for such an implementation >>>> under Linux / Windows ? >>> You mean to provide the equivalent functionality for Firefox that your >>> activex component does for IE? Yes, xpcom and pyxpcom are quite stable, >>> however putting together a Firefox extension that gets PyXPCOM itself up >>> and running in a client's Firefox install will be quite challenging. >>> >>> Trent >>> >> Exactly ... are you saying I need to distribute Firefox compiled >> differently in order to achieve that ? > > No. But you'll have to get comfortable building your own Firefox and > then building the PyXPCOM extension and then packaging the built PyXPCOM > bits that a normal Firefox install does not have already into a Firefox > extension. This would also mean packaging up parts of a Python build and > possible needing to have a custom Python build to (1) get shared library > loading to work correct and (2) ensure there isn't crosstalk between the > python that PyXPCOM uses and possibly other Python installations on the > target machine. > >> This is less a python issue clearly if that is the case: would I have >> the same issues to resolve if I were to write the module in C++ ? > > A little, yes: I believe you'd need a Firefox build in a development > tree to build a vanilla C++ XPCOM component. However, I am not sure of > that. > > Mostly, no: You wouldn't need to worry about all the PyXPCOM/Python > build/install issues. > > > Trent > Thanks Trent,
I'll do some testing and bug Mark in the process I'm sure :-) Regards, Philippe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
