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

On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Marcus Müller wrote:

>
> On 24.08.2005, at 13:42, Pierce T. Wetter III wrote:
>>
>> Anyways, knowing how these open source projects work, if you built  
>> IntarScript into SOPE, I seriously doubt the SOPE guys would turn  
>> their noses up at it, especially if you've successfully used it in  
>> production.
>
> Yes, I definitely can assure you of this. In an ideal world (with  
> lots of time on our hands) we'd probably support all scripting  
> languages. In fact there's really no way to leave someone out. It's  
> just so that because of lack of time and personal experience there  
> are some favourites that I/we like to pursue first.
>
> Helge and I just recently discussed the idea of having Python  
> associations and bash (shell) associations, so that you could do  
> something like this:
>
> <var:string py:value="2 + 2" />
>
> and
>
> <var:string bash:value="/bin/cat /foo/bar" />
>
> This is not unlikely to happen in SOPE in the future and could then  
> suite as a template for other embedding stuff.

   The shell association doesn't bother me overly, but having too  
much code in the html can be deadly.

  Pierce