Re: Open source movement for osax writers? (was Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix)
Re: Open source movement for osax writers? (was Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix)
- Subject: Re: Open source movement for osax writers? (was Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix)
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:34:54 -0800
on 2/2/02 8:56 AM, email@hidden at
email@hidden wrote:
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Any chance you might make the osax open source? Maybe you could
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launch an open source movement among osax developers.
You know a lot of the work is already done. There's already tons of
open-source code that runs in Unix and would run in OS X as Osax if it were
simply repackaged. In many cases simply attaching an scripting interface
with an AETE resource is all that's needed.
Even the idea of using shell commands to replace Osax could be rethought...
since unix shell commands are actually calls to applications (mostly open
source) why not take the code from the shell applications themselves and
slap AETE resources on them and save them as Osax?
You don't really need the Shell application to get the functionality. The
shell is really just the Unix version of a user Interface. Rather than have
an AppleScript interface call another interface wouldn't it make sense to
simply build osaxen with the same source code?
ES