Scripting

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 06 June 2005 08:23, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am back with some time for hacking on krita. And I was thinking about the
> scripting feature, and I have notice that we have all a different
> prefference, 

Oh, I was already quite resigned to kjs -- one should be pragmatic in these 
things :-).

> so I think it would be best to use some tools to generate the 
> wrappers, we have, at least, three options :
>  - make our own
>  - kross ( http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?Scripting )
> advantage : good integration in kde/qt/koffice, problem : currently support
> only python, but plan for kjs, but it should'nt be too hard to add other
> languages
>  - swig ( http://www.swig.org/ ) advantage : support a lot of language
> problem : it's heavyheight
>
> I personnaly favor kross, but I would like to have your opinion on the
> subject ?

I think swig is too heavyweight, too. And using a generator is a good idea, 
especially since it will help keeping the bindings current. We do need some 
sort of integrated IDE for script hackers, though, preferably with a debug 
option.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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