Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Everything module

[Andy A. <an...@he...>]

On 17 Jul 2006, at 14:53, Ron Parker wrote:

>
> We've looked into that.  We also looked into Ruby and a couple of  
> other languages.  It turns out to be a bit harder than just  
> dropping in an interpreter, because in all the examples we've  
> looked at, there seems to be a bit of a mismatch between what the  
> embeddable language desires in a data structure and what gets put  
> into a data structure that comes from native C.  Thus, there always  
> seems to be a need for some kind of translation layer.  Stuff like  
> the format-specific data doesn't make this any easier, obviously.

That seems to be a lot of pain for not that much gain. From my  
perspective it seems to be both easier and more useful to make  
gpsbabel callable from other languages.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net