Other Scripting Languages?

[Reikon]

Will Adium support other scripting languages on the Mac platform, such as Perl, Python or Ruby? Just wondering.

[noleli]

I highly doubt Adium will ever support other scripting languages directly, but you could write a script in anything you want as use the AppleScript command "do shell script" to execute it.

(I have a script that is a c++ program I wrote that runs on a remote web server and dumps the results to an HTML file; I simply use a " do shell script "curl URL" " to get it back into Adium.)

[zaudragon]

I highly doubt Adium will ever support other scripting languages directly, but you could write a script in anything you want as use the AppleScript command "do shell script" to execute it.

(I have a script that is a c++ program I wrote that runs on a remote web server and dumps the results to an HTML file; I simply use a " do shell script "curl URL" " to get it back into Adium.)

Yup. That should work. If you have a .py, you can always do

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do shell script "./foo.py foo bar arg bla"

[Reikon]

True, but I've had iffy results doing this. Sometimes it doesn't return anything, etc.

[zaudragon]

True, but I've had iffy results doing this. Sometimes it doesn't return anything, etc.

Well then, it might be fun to make a plugin for other scripting languages, eh?

[The_Tick]

Not unless someone codes it. Locking this because it's basically reached the limits of usefulness