Re: Eaten by the Tiger? Open Source WO is coming...

On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:26 AM, Helge Hess wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 2:29, Pierce T. Wetter III wrote:
>
>>  Personally, rather then WebScript, I would do "python for SOPE"  
>> or something similar.
>>
>
> there should be no problem with using PyObjC in combination with  
> SOPE if you like it. Personally I prefer to see an interpreted of  
> Objective-C (or sth close).

   perl, etc. might also be possible, the mapping to python would  
just be simpler since the objc and python object models are similar.

   javascript might work as well for that matter.

   Just along the lines of doing WO one better, perhaps supporting  
multiple scripting languages would be an option.

>
> To bad, its rather nice and one of the reasons why having sth  
> powerful like EOF in the back is useful.
>

  I basically ended up duplicating a lot of the interesting stuff in  
D2W (the rules engine) by having a metadata layer where any of my  
data objects can be asked "how should I format this key" and "how  
should I label this key".

>
>>   Oh, sure. SOPE is awesome. I just can't easily use it yet. :-)
>>
>
> If you still have the Apple ObjC EOF, you should be able to use it  
> with SOPE after some tweaking.
> No reason to change everything in _one_ step, no?

   Hmmm.... That's a good point. The way you did the web server  
adaptor in SOPE is very interesting for instance. SOPE fixes a lot of  
the things where I've always thought: "Gee, I should fix that someday."


   You commented about support for AJAX. Reading the Wiki article,  
that just seems like a set of WO Component libraries to me.

  Pierce