Re: pyxpcom
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 ? 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++ ? Thanks, hg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pyxpcom
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 -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pyxpcom
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
Re: pyxpcom
hg wrote: Hi, Can one tell me what the status of this project is ?. I did google ... but not much out there. PyXPCOM source is in the main Mozilla CVS tree. It is being maintained by Mark Hammond (the original developer of the extension). There isn't a lot of activity on it, I think, because: 1. Mark did such a good job of implementing it the first time around that it needs very little work :) 2. It is very high learning curve to get into playing with PyXPCOM because there are no conveniently packaged builds of PyXPCOM for current (or any) versions of Firefox or Mozilla. Interestingly, Mark is currently working *full* support for Python in the Mozilla code base, i.e. being able to use Python anywhere you can currently use JavaScript (in script tags in XUL and HTML). Look for nsdom and Python. Note that it is still very much in development phase, is only part of the Mozilla trunk (I believe) -- hence only really applies to Firefox versions well beyond FF2. The pyxpcom mailing list is here: http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/pyxpcom PyXPCOM is heavily used in Komodo (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/, the IDE that I work on at ActiveState). Regarding #2 (from above): Mark started some discussion a while back about the what it would take to provide builds of PyXPCOM. The answer is that it would probably be very hard. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pyxpcom/3167613 Cheers, Trent -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pyxpcom
Trent Mick wrote: hg wrote: Hi, Can one tell me what the status of this project is ?. I did google ... but not much out there. PyXPCOM source is in the main Mozilla CVS tree. It is being maintained by Mark Hammond (the original developer of the extension). There isn't a lot of activity on it, I think, because: 1. Mark did such a good job of implementing it the first time around that it needs very little work :) 2. It is very high learning curve to get into playing with PyXPCOM because there are no conveniently packaged builds of PyXPCOM for current (or any) versions of Firefox or Mozilla. Interestingly, Mark is currently working *full* support for Python in the Mozilla code base, i.e. being able to use Python anywhere you can currently use JavaScript (in script tags in XUL and HTML). Look for nsdom and Python. Note that it is still very much in development phase, is only part of the Mozilla trunk (I believe) -- hence only really applies to Firefox versions well beyond FF2. The pyxpcom mailing list is here: http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/pyxpcom PyXPCOM is heavily used in Komodo (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/, the IDE that I work on at ActiveState). Regarding #2 (from above): Mark started some discussion a while back about the what it would take to provide builds of PyXPCOM. The answer is that it would probably be very hard. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pyxpcom/3167613 Cheers, Trent Thanks, 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 ? Regards, hg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pyxpcom
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 -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pyxpcom and firefox
Philippe C. Martin wrote: I write this post here because I do not manage to get in touch with mozilla dev people: [...] 1) has anyone compiled/installed pyxpcom with firefox 1.5xx ? 2) is there a plan to make it a .xpi (the pyxpcom xpi for mozilla does not install into firefox). I can't answer these questions, unfortunately, but you may be better off asking them on the pyxpcom mailing list: http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/pyxpcom Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
