On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:32:05PM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > interface for the desired language => the lyx server solution doubles the > work.
no, not really. It provides a simple one-point place where interaction happens. If it's really hard to communicate via named pipes in your favourite scripting language, then that language sucks. It's not exactly a complicated protocol. > Further, the lyx server solution looks very home brewed to me, > there are standard solutions like CORBA. "Waiter there's a fly in my soup !" "Ah let me provide you with an H bomb to deal with it" :) > If I make patches to integrate Python directly into Lyx, is there a chance > that they make it into the official sources? As I can see with my current > knowledge about the lyx sources and the Python lib, the changes to the > existing sources will be very little for basic scripting functions, it's > mainly extra code in extra source files. having said the above, someone actually producing code is a different matter. You'll have to ask Lars ... if the patches are nice , I don't see why not, as long as it is always optional regards john -- "I'd rather be rudely informed than politely left in the dark."
