On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:05:02 +0300, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23 March 2010 19:17, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As I'm sure you've already gathered from the other responses, this is >> exactly the right place. I'm a little skeptical myself that porting >> that >> particular piece of code from OCaml to Python is going to be a really >> big >> win for us (because it's still a "foreign" language as far as PHP-based >> MediaWiki is concerned, so integration is still a little clunky and >> performance may take a hit due to yet another interpreter needing to >> load), >> but I'll let others weigh in on whether I'm making too big a deal about >> that. > > > Getting it off Ocaml is an excellent first step. I have tried and > failed to get texvc working properly in MediaWiki myself more than a > few times, because of Ocaml not wanting to play nice ... Actually I completely disagree. Since I've got some experience with both OCaml and PHP the idea to convert Maths processing to PHP looks like a not so good idea at all. Probably the issues you had were more like a wrong/problematic configuration or something like that. OCaml itself is actively developed and is a mature language and development environment, much better than PHP or Python (IMHO). It is just interesting to wait a bit and compare the PHP and OCaml implementations of texvc (if there will be anything at all to compare). Wish you good luck, Victor _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
