[Kde-bindings] KDE/kdebindings/csharp

[Richard Dale]

On Friday 05 December 2008 18:03:12 Arno Rehn wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2008 18:48:23 Richard Dale wrote:
> > On Friday 05 December 2008 17:35:28 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > * Add support for compiling sources at runtime. Supported languages for
> > > now: C#, Boo, Nemerle, VB.NET (this one doesn't quite work yet - the
> > > compiler seems to be buggy).
> > >   The first non-blank line in the mainscript file needs to be a comment
> > > in the form // language:csharp references:System.Xml
> > > sources:otherfile.cs 'meta-comments' for different languages look
> > > equivalent. By default references for qt-dotnet, kde-dotnet and
> > > plasma-dll are added. The default language is C#, the default source
> > > file is only 'main'. So if a script is written in C#, only needs qt,
> > > kde and plasma bindings and all the code is contained in 'main', this
> > > comment can be omitted.
> > >   For each source file a md5 hash is created so it's only recompiled if
> > > the source was modified.
> >
> > Interesting commit! I didn't know this was possible. We could have a
> > different plasmoid package type where the main file was a 'main.cs'
> > source instead of a compiled 'main' assembly perhaps, instead of having
> > to tell them apart at runtime?
>
> I actually like it the way it is now - otherwise we would have to create a
> different package structure for each supported language.. (for main.cs,
> main.vb, main.n, main.boo etc.)
Yes, that's a good point.

> And differentiating between a binary assembly and a source file is rather
> easy at runtime with KMimeType.
Ah, ok.

 Maybe it would be interesting to try doing some plasma applets in these other 
languages - I think it would work in basic although it's a pretty ugly 
language.

-- Richard