[Sugar-devel] python hulahop article

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson
Leighton<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On 7/27/09, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> XPCOM is self-deprecating. It's excessively costly for both callers and
>> implementors of its interfaces, both in runtime overhead and in
>> expressiveness restrictions.
>
>  i'd say that that's a price paid for the incredible power and
> flexibility of what it brings, but hey, nobody said it would be easy
> :)   i'm dead impressed that you got XPCOM right, and that it works as
> expected, by providing seamless inter-language communication - and now
> am a bit puzzled that it's to be deprecated.

Isn't that the same that GObject Introspection brings? You code in
whatever language that produces a .so with some metadata, then you can
call it from any language with bindings for g-o-i.

I would expect Qt has something similar.

Regards,

Tomeu

>> We aren't going to drop it but we are already
>> optimizing around it, and removing it in future APIs.
>
>  mmm, history will tell if that's a mistake or not.  please don't
> remove it _until_ the new API which replaces python-xpcom is fully
> completed.  that would _definitely_ be a mistake.
>
>>  This doesn't mean multiple programming languages won't be able to call or
>> implement those APIs. Cc'ing Benjamin Smedberg, who can say more.
>
>  thanks brendan.
>
>  well, as long as there's _something_ that provides full and complete
> python access to the XULrunner DOM model, providing exactly the same
> API (all of it and i do mean all of it) as what python-xpcom currently
> provides, i honestly don't care how it's done.  but i'm still curious.
>  benjamin?
>