Plea to developers: Make data for all applications available to scripting languages

[Giles Jones]

On 15 Sep 2007, at 22:53, J F wrote:

>
> What I would like to see is ALL programs having a way of getting at  
> their
> data from a scripting language. I don't know if it makes sense to  
> have some
> guidelines for developers to make it easier for this information to  
> be got
> at. This would be for someone more competent than me to suggest.
>
>

Quite simply, if long term storage utilises and embedded database  
then so long as the scripting language can access it then it will be  
fine.