From: Oswald B. <os...@kd...> - 2007-11-07 12:31:53
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:27:33AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le mercredi 7 novembre 2007, Oswald Buddenhagen a écrit : > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:08:39PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > > BTW i do not think qtscript is bad (cenceptually). But I think ECMA-262 > > > is really a very good scientific language. [...] > > > Personnally (and it is personnal) I am really kind of python due to pysci > > > module. > > > > you should really consider using kde as the platform - in this case, the > > kross scripting framework would come in handy. :-) > > I know that the big force of qt is cross plateform. But I think also python is > cross plateform (and swig will allow to create really easilly perl and python > binding, > > why qt do not use swig is a mystery licence is not a reason because > it is under BSD). > corporate politics. heh. anyway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kross_(KDE) has some comparison between the two. > > this is only about modularization. [...] > > Without any thing bad in my mind do you know the history of spice? > no. but anyway ... > Allowing as you call plugin is not really good for our freedom. Spice was > killed for this kind of stuff. And moreover we expose to something like nvdia > driver. People that will deny the GPL license of qucs. > you are presenting the GPL as a toothless tiger. as numerous rulings in europe have shown, this is not the case. one case is currently open in the US - iirc, it is the first over there, so we have to wait and see. dunno about the rest of the world, but given the international context even an indic vendor would have a hard time getting away with it unless he restricts himself to the home market *and* it turns out that the gpl is not enforcable in india (that's just a hypothentical example, obviously). http://www.gpl-violations.org/ specifically about the situation of closed plugins for gpl software, the fsf's position is very clear: it is illegal. for the linux kernel nobody enforces it, as linus more or less approves the model. but that doesn't mean you have to tolerate it for your software. > > > About plugin I have talked about it with Vincent the guy we made > > > the filter plugin. It will be nice to use core or filter module as > > > a library. But qucs-core need to reentrant and it will pretty > > > hard. > > > > this sounds odd. i guess one would rather make a library with some > > often used core functions that both the core itself and the plugins > > would use. > > It has some advantage, particularly for real time simulation and > automation (in electrical engineering sense). > i think i'm completely missing what you have in mind ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. |