Subj : Re: A plea to the Open Sourcerors
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : ajmayo@my-deja.com (Andrew Mayo)
Date : Wed Jan 28 2004 02:52 am

"Sterling Bates" <whoelse.sterlingbates@com> wrote in message news:<bv3cii$7781@ripley.netscape.com>...
> "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


Yes, I think this is what I will do. It seems so close, now. Since I
only need Windows support it might be better to add my own custom
extensions rather than try and use the NSPR-based file object, which
obviously has the advantage of platform neutrality.

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