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Colin Paul Adams
An interface to the Parrot virtual machine for Eiffel programs, so that Eiffel programs may use Perl, Python, Ruby, Amber, Scheme, etc. as extension scripts.
The idea is that users of such an application can code extension scripts in their favourite scripting language. The Eiffel developer does not need to know in advance what that language will be - only that it is one that is supported by Parrot.
So languages such as Perl 6, Python, Ruby, Scheme and Amber can all be used freely.
At the moment it's fairly basic - you can call a script and pass it some arguments.
While that might already be useful for some applications (e.g. logging), in general you need to be able to retrieve information back from the script to make it a complete extension facility - this area is currently under development (in discussion with the Parrot developers on how best to achieve this).
So no release yet, but you can fetch it from CVS, and run the examples.
