Re: Scaffold, plugins and language independence

[Christian Leutloff <leutloff sundancer oche de>]

Hello,

John (J5) Palmieri schrieb:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:37, Mikoyan wrote:
>
> > Hello scaffold developers,
> >
> > we have taken interest in Scaffold and its current plans.
> > But we have a simple question: since glib's plugin
> > system is going to be used (GModule+GTypePlugin?), what's
> > the deal with plugins for scaffold and the langauge they
> > are writtin in? E.g. how easy is it to write a plugin in
> > python and use it without any problem?
>
>
> Good question.  Well I guess the interfaces will have to be wrapped in
> Python. Not to hard to do for GObjects so it should be the same for
> interfaces I am assuming.  Check out  
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wrap/.  I for one
> would welcome Python plugins.
>
> --
> J5

Regarding the language independent execution of plug-ins it is worth to 
have a look of the technology used by mono/.NET. E.G. using the type 
system developed for .NET languages it is possible to directly call 
functions written in different languages. The usage of the same type 
primitives eleminates the need of marshalling and re-marshalling the 
variables.

Bye
  Christian

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