On 23 March 2010 19:17, Rob Lanphier robla@robla.net wrote:
As I'm sure you've already gathered from the other responses, this is exactly the right place. I'm a little skeptical myself that porting that particular piece of code from OCaml to Python is going to be a really big win for us (because it's still a "foreign" language as far as PHP-based MediaWiki is concerned, so integration is still a little clunky and performance may take a hit due to yet another interpreter needing to load), but I'll let others weigh in on whether I'm making too big a deal about that.
Getting it off Ocaml is an excellent first step. I have tried and failed to get texvc working properly in MediaWiki myself more than a few times, because of Ocaml not wanting to play nice ...
- d.