embperl/wsh

[Eglin]

Was on the fence about whether to post this here or in the feature request forum, so please send all flames to /dev/null.

I am interested in enhancing eqemu by embedding it with either Perl or WSH (which would indirectly allow for Perl under Windows). I have lots of experience doing this type of thing, and think it could have lots of cool implications.

I am currently investigating the code, trying to decide where to shoehorn the goods in. I suspect that I would shoot for extending the quest code to allow "real" code. I haven't yet decided whether I would try to add some sort of script tag like HTML does or to try to make the embedded language a superset of the existing scripting language or just add hooks to filter the scripts through external apps or what. At any rate, augmenting the script code would make it trivial to implement NPCs that use Web::Babelfish to translate languages or SOAP::Lite to query for real-world weather conditions or IRC gateways or any number of really sexy stuff.

Any suggestions will be most welcomed. If I don't "see" any real interest in this, I'll probably add support for the WSH via COM (which is supa-simple and supports vb/python/perl/ruby/etc, but is Windows only). Otherwise, I'll focus on doing something more multiplatform (probably centered around Perl).