274619 - Using XPCOM for modules?

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: Mozbot, enhancement)

Description

[Morten Lied Johansen]

I was procrastinating today, and started browsing the various mozilla-pages. 
First I happened onto the XPCOM pages, and after a deal of reading, found it to 
be an interesting technology and worthy of later consideration. Then, a bit 
later I found MozBot, and saw that it had pluggable modules, and thought to 
myself:
 
   "I bet they used XPCOM for that! It would be perfect, allowing modules to be 
written in 'any' language, so that people could use what they were used to, 
instead of being forced to use Perl."


No such luck though, so here's a feature request instead... :D

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

You don't need XPCOM for this -- I wrote a mozbot BotModule in EuScheme once, it
worked fine. The key is just to have a special thunk module from the perl to the
other language.

I have no intention whatsoever of ever trying to add XPCOM to mozbot.

Comment 2

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified Wontfix.