"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw_at_CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:
>
> I think you've been reading my mind! I'm glad my module [*] has
> sparked these discussions because my free time is probably too limited
> to explore a lot of these myself. Hopefully my module will provide a
> good jumping off point...
>
> On your first note, I'd thought about that in some detail, but haven't
> put the fingers to the keyboard yet. I was thinking it would be
> pretty cool to have a framework similar to Grail's where a naming
> convention for SendToModule strings could trigger this long lived
> FvwmPython module to import bits as needed, and could cache state,
> etc. But then this led me (as it led you) to thinking about embedding
> the interpreter in FVWM directly, a la Lele Gaifax's PyApache for
> embedding Python into the Apache HTTP server (see
> <http://www.python.org/python/Contributed.html>). The cool thing is
> that this would almost instantly make FVWM ILU-aware and then you
> could talk to FVWM through ILU interfaces. There's probably a lot of
> cool things you could do here if you described the interface to FVWM
> via ILU.
>
> Well, food for thought anyway. I'm going to try to play with some of
> these ideas when possible, but I encourage others to as well! And
> please, I'd love to have feedback on Fvwm.py!
>
> -Barry
I too have a lack of free time at the moment. I'll have to look at the more
interesting parts of python, since until now I've mainly be using it as a
scripting language.
--
Brady Montz
bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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Received on Mon Aug 19 1996 - 20:20:56 BST