[Kde-games-devel] scripting languages

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Paolo Capriotti wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 05:42:12 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> when we started playing with the theme engine, Kross was part of KOffice
> and I remember that I had troubles figuring out how to compile it
> separately. 

yes, it has come a long way in the last 6 months.

> At the time, there was no such trend of using Javascript 
> throughout KDE for scripting, al least, I did not notice it. I remember
> that Kate had tried both Lua and Javascript (and eventually decided for
> Javascript) and that Amarok used (still uses?) ruby.

yes, kate still uses js and amarok is using ruby.

> Having one language for scripting in the whole of KDE is certainly a good
> thing, but I must say that making a transition to Kross (which for us would
> probably also mean extending Kross to support Lua, since we already have a
> lot of Lua code)

that does make it more difficult indeed. how much Lua do you have?

> is not a top priority at the moment for us. 
> While we're at it, can you point me to the projects that are now using
> Kross / QtScript?

seems just SK and koffice use Kross. QtScript is also pretty new. it's not 
like you guys are behind, it's just nice to get people onto the leading edge 
as quickly as possible...

> I know about Plasma, but... how much of the scripting 
> framework for it has been done?

there are two people working on QtScript, both having started within the last 
couple weeks and both are experienced qt bindings people. so i'm encouraged 
by that.

if KBoard doesn't have js support, well .. it's not like it's a huge loss. 
just would be nice to have as many app as possible in line with each other.

cheers =)

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