Subj : Re: A plea to the Open Sourcerors
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "Sterling Bates" <whoelse.sterlingbates@com>
Date : Mon Jan 26 2004 08:43 am


"Andrew Mayo" <ajmayo@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:2b20cd9f.0401260159.748bc73f@posting.google.com...
> It sure would be nice to have a decent Open Source implementation of
> Javascript which included file I/O capabilities and had a fairly small
> runtime footprint. I would have thought a *lot* of people would have
> found it useful. Currently, it looks like XPCOM almost does it, but
> doesn't do file I/O and I get the impression I'm being discouraged to
> experiment further with Seamonkey's jsshell as this is presumably just
> a 'proof of concept'.

That's the beauty of open source :)  If it isn't already done, you can take
a couple days and do it exactly the way you want.  SpiderMonkey (SeaMonkey
== Mozilla suite) is very easy to extend with your own script objects.  You
could quickly create a new File object, and since your target OS is Win95
I'd be surprised if you need more than a couple days.  Registry access is
similarly easy, with your object wrapping the Windows API calls.

All you need to distribute is the js3215.dll file that you can compile on
your own.  Pretty small footprint as it's only 300K.

Sterling

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