Re: Python Dock for Foal

On Friday 15 June 2001 08:35, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:
> I've been thinking about the idea of dynamically loading specified Python
> modules into Foal and then calling an entry function in them, to get stuff
> like clocks, cpuinfo and meminfo dockable apps. Two reasons for this:
>
> 1) I can't get general application docking to work...
> 2) Python is huge. Importing an extra module in the same address space
> to do something simple is much better than spawning extra interpreters,
> provided the module is robust...
>
> I might get around to adding this as a feature this weekend or next,
> but it would be nice to know whether people think there are problems with
> this approach.
>
[snip]

Take a look at sysset, it does the same thing with it's applets, which are
loaded at runtime from a given directory.

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