>>>>> "Alfredo" == Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alfredo> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Note that this means that all this file manipulation will reside in >> sh scripts, which will really be unix-specific, and this is not a >> good design IMO. Of course, we could use lua :) Alfredo> But what do we do now? I see, we could fill a list of Alfredo> "arguments to forkedcall" instead of an ostream, without Alfredo> changing the concept, right? Even if it seems to me that the Alfredo> other way is way more flexible. Let's say we can go the sh route anyway, but keep in mind that the code should be only added in a few known place, so that we can rewrite it easily later. Alfredo> Btw, what's lua? It is a small embeddable interpreter for what looks like a nice language. On linux, the interpreter with complete standard library included has a dec size of 100k (for 400k of sources). I do not know whether it is possible to remove the parts of the std lib that we do not need, but the gain would be small anyway. So this is basically something we could ship with LyX (compare with 3.8M of boost sources). Web site is at www.lua.org. Also there is a set of C++ bindings at luabind.sf.net. These should please lars, since they use heavy template code and is inspired by boost::Python :) The price to pay is that it is as large as lua itself (430k of source) and will probably not do good things to compile times. But of course we do not really know what script languages we are going to choose... JMarc
