[openbeos] Re: GUI, scripting, etc

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:52:33 +0200 (MEST)

The top one mandatory thing to include is "hey".
This enables one to do many things just with shell script, which doesn't 
require anything else since /bin/sh is installed already.
of course, sometimes it becomes really tricky even if doable, and
using a more adapted language is recommended.
This is more of a distribution issue IMHO, except for hey.

My vote for today *g*

François.

En réponse à Helmar Rudolph <helmar@xxxxxxxxx>:

> > 3) No matter which one you choose, someone will be unhappy.
> > Personally, I think that Be was wise to be scripting language
> agnostic.
> > OTOH, distros of OBOS could include any, all or no scripting
> languages.
> 
> Just my 0.02. BeOS is in the rather disadvantageous position
> that it lacks many apps - even really basic ones. I come
> from the camp that thinks anything that could make coding
> for BeOS easier _without_ first having to download or
> install something should be considered. And as Python is
> probably the best known scripting languages, I'd regard it
> as an asset in a standard OBOS distro.
> 
> WRT "someone will be unhappy".... well that'll be true even
> if you include all supported scripting languages, because
> then someone will bitch about something else. Bottom line:
> you will never please everybody, but if you have the option
> to add value to the standard distro, by all means, why not?
> After all, it's only an OS, and an OS stands and falls with
> its apps, and if there is something easier to write BeOS
> apps with, then it's almost mandatory to include it.
> 
> Helmar
> 
> 
>

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