Re: [Bug-gnubg] New fuctionallity for batch operations, opinions wanted!

[Joern Thyssen]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:10:53AM +1200, Joseph Heled wrote
> 
> This lack is due to GNUbg "not very good" scripting abilities. Since 
> this is a GNU project, Gary decided on Scheme as the builtin scripting 
> language. This might be fine for super programmers like Gary, but I 
> think it is hard to swallow for most of us. For my development work, I 
> used to work with TCL, and recently switched to python and very happy 
> with it.

I agree that it would be very nice for have a scripting language inside
gnubg. Scheme is the gnu-way to go, but my knowledge of lisp only
extends to making simple initialisations in my .emacs file :-)

Python and perl are other candidates. It looks quite easy to to embed
python into gnubg. We would have to provide a wrapper function for each
important gnubg function. Does anyone have experience with embedding
python into C-programs?

Both perl and python has gtk extensions, so it also possible to make
user functions that creates dialogs etc.

Jørn