GMail is a moron!<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Shashwath T.R.</b> <<a href="mailto:trshash84@gmail.com">trshash84@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Feb 19, 2007 2:16 PM
<br>Subject: Re: [Amarok-devel] kross? Re: Plugins...<br>To: Mark Kretschmann <<a href="mailto:markey@web.de">markey@web.de</a>><br><br></span><span class="q">On 2/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Kretschmann
</b> <<a href="mailto:markey@web.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">markey@web.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Another thought that came to my mind: In light of the Windows and OSX ports,<br>we should limit the number of allowed scripting languages (also for dbus<br>scripts). Ideally, we'd only support one language, but I think that may be
<br>unrealistic. So think we should support Ruby and Python as scripting<br>languages, as these two are the most popular.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Allowing Bash, PHP, etc only invites dependency hell, and makes the scripts<br>less portable. I think it would be great if 3rd party scripts could run on<br>all platforms.<br></blockquote></div><br></span>Of course, we can't stop people from writing dbus scripts using bash or lisp or
<br>scheme or whatever, but in principle, I agree. All the plugins we write, support or <br>bundle into <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Amarok</span> will be from these languages. Ultimately, I think it boils down<br>
to pretty much the same situation as now.<br>
<br>Binary plugins are the work of the devil himself, of course, and should be avoided<br>like the plague! :)<br><span class="sg"><br>--<br>Shash<br>
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