[Sugar-devel] Gecko for Win32, pyjamas-desktop, python-hulahop

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

folks, hi, just wanted to mention a couple of things that i found.

1) you'll be pleased to know that i managed to hack pyjamas-desktop
into submission to use python-hulahop, at europython over the last
couple of days.  i managed to get window event listeners going,
element listeners _and_ XMLHTTPRequest async callbacks - all
python-based.  none of which would be possible without
hulahop.WebView.  so - thank you.

2) i found a page yesterday of a GSoc 2009 student who was proposing
to port hulahop to webkit.  i put on the "talk" page that of course
because pywebkitgtk now has python bindings to the DOM that most of
the work is now done and so his task will be made much easier.  that's
if GSoc 2009 is still going.  or if his proposal was accepted.
anyway, just mentioning it.

3) the next step is of course to have python-hulahop running on win32,
alongside python-xpcom, yippee, won't that be fun.  so, looking around
for xulrunner for win32, i find that the olpc page says "Install
Gecko: TODO" haaaaa :)  so anyway i found this:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14918.html which may
contain the stuff that's needed. i.e. GRE (gecko runtime environment).
 i mean, after all, firefox compiles for win32 duh so it should be
perfectly possible to get XUL and python-xpcom, right? hmmmm :)

l.