Hi Bjoern, On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 23:16 +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> Oh, I have no opposition against writing C++ tests. When have the > infrastructure for that in the build system and it certainly has advantages > once the test is there. However, as Michael pointed out a dynamic language has > clearly some advantages too when aiming for getting the test up quickly. Java > is just as clumsy in that regard as C++ and has funky garbage collection with > makes the bridge code "interesting", so it is a lose-lose, but it is what we > have right now. I wouldn't call it lose-lose, but that's certainly your opinion. Also, by "funky garbage collection" if you are referring to the ref-counted cssu::Reference memory management that UNO API uses (since C ++ doesn't even have memory management natively), doesn't python have the same issue since its objects are all reference-counted? And since with python it has to go through the language binding wouldn't it make it even more interesting than native C++ binding? > > I will also point out that using python here may alienate some of us who are > > not a big fan of the language. I can at least think of one particular > > person > > who is very allergic to python (and he has a big presence among us). :-) > > This 'big presence' is also quite allergic to Java, if I get you right. And > there even with some rational reasons to back it up. Oh, and I hope you are > not > suggesting the 'big presence' would be blocking things in the project because > of personal taste. ;) I'm not suggesting anything. Let's not read too much into my words. And he certainly doesn't block things. > > I personally do love and use python in some of our projects, but I would > > stick with C++ for this specific use case as Markus pointed out. > > Yes, no objections to that. However, if you want to get more test coverage (or > even just the same) as the old qadevOOo tests, so that you could get rid of > those (and Java), you are surely quicker with Python than with C++. Esp. since > there might be more people willing or able to invest in that. So, who would be willing to invest time if it were written in python? With C++ at least Markus is already showing interest. Best, Kohei -- Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
