[Sugar-devel] python hulahop article

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On 7/26/09, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 18:43, Luke Kenneth Casson
>  Leighton<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> Thanks! Will be great having more people helping with maintenance.
>
>  PyXPCOM is getting a new maintainer these days, so hopefully someone
>  will look at the open bugs soon.

 oh that would be good.  it has to be said though that i really didn't
encounter much that needed to be taken care of: i mentioned already
that the only real bug was actually in xulrunner itself (actually, the
IDL files) drawImage:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502234

everything else was either "good enough" or could be worked around.
out of what... 300 or so DOM objects, over 2,000 functions and an
insane number of properties, that's damn impressive.

what would be _especially_ good would be for xpcom to be "broken out
of" xulrunner both in peoples' minds and also in actual real code.
xpcom is a dumbed-down version of DCOM (i.e. with the D removed and
many other features) and so i _know_ just how powerful it really is,
but very few other people - outside of the mozilla community - are.
which is a real surprise.

you can register services as objects, and have them seamlessly
communicate across programming language barriers... that kind of
technology is just... gold dust!  the mozilla community should be
raving their tits off about that!  and it's just weird that they're
not doing that, whilst gobject is struggling to make ends meet.

l.