pyxpcom

[Trent Mick]

hg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can one tell me what the status of this project is ?. I did google ...
> but not much out there.

PyXPCOM source is in the main Mozilla CVS tree. It is being maintained by Mark 
Hammond (the original developer of the extension). There isn't a lot of 
activity on it, I think, because:
1. Mark did such a good job of implementing it the first time around that it 
needs very little work :)
2. It is very high learning curve to get into playing with PyXPCOM because 
there are no conveniently packaged builds of PyXPCOM for current (or any) 
versions of Firefox or Mozilla.

Interestingly, Mark is currently working *full* support for Python in the 
Mozilla code base, i.e. being able to use Python anywhere you can currently 
use JavaScript (in <script> tags in XUL and HTML). Look for "nsdom" and 
Python. Note that it is still very much in development phase, is only part of 
the Mozilla trunk (I believe) -- hence only really applies to Firefox versions 
well beyond FF2.

The pyxpcom mailing list is here:
http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/pyxpcom

PyXPCOM is heavily used in Komodo 
(<http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/>, the IDE that I work on at 
ActiveState).

Regarding #2 (from above): Mark started some discussion a while back about the 
  what it would take to provide builds of PyXPCOM. The answer is that it would 
probably be very hard.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pyxpcom/3167613


Cheers,
Trent

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Trent Mick
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