Board:   [DeveloperNet] C#
Subject: Synchronet scripting
From:    Mercyful Fate
Date:    Thu Feb 20, 2014 09:46

  Re: Synchronet scripting
  By: Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Tue Feb 11 2014 20:11:37

 Ni> Yeah, it would probably still takesome significant time to do that and
 Ni> also to test it.  In a way, it might have been good that Synchronet went
 Ni> with JavaScript because I've read Python made some breaking changes
 Ni> starting with 3.0 - So not all Python 2.x scripts run with Python 3.0 and
 Ni> vice versa. JavaScript hasn't had that type of a change (as far as I
 Ni> know).  Also, I think one of the strengths of JavaScript is its text
 Ni> manipulation capabilities, including regular expressions.  I've used those
 Ni> quite a bitin my Synchronet JavaScript mods - Although I'm sure Python
 Ni> has similar capabilities.

Indeed, they did break a lot of stuff.  The nice thing that the 2.x and 3.x can
coexists and you just put the #!/usr/lib/python2.7 or version your using in
your script.  I know boost_python still used the 2.7 at the moment.

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