On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 17:55 -0700, Ryan McDougall wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 01:21 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > > > In either case, adding to GNOME dependencies on Java/J2EE or C#/.Net is > > absurd and a waste of resources. > > Exactly what part of it is a waste of resources? No one is suggesting we > depend on non-free software, so I'm not sure where you're getting this > J2EE or .NET from. Must I constantly use a "don't reply yet, read more below" phrase? > > It is important that the Free Software community has something to > > interpret or even handle these proprietary languages (and don't give me > > ECMA RF "sand in the eyes", since there's a lot outside of it that many > > will want/need when developing with .Net) because we have to have a way > > Thats why we restrict ourselves to ECMA, and our *own* library stack. No > one wants GNOME to depend on .NET -- its simply not on the table. Please > read the big long parent thread if you don't understand what people are > arguing. The question is that it is incomplete enough to be useless to a lot of people, so not really that usefull to be something to base upon. > > We have viable options, and the smarts needed to make them available not > > to a particular language but to many (if not all). > > Thats the whole crux of the discussion! Please let us know what you > consider the alternatives to be. perl, python if you want to make a smaller selection. python might be more apt since it has a simpler syntax and is object oriented by nature, which adapts well to the GUI paradigm. > > Besides, I'm terribly afraid of "viruses" starting to show up due to > > uneeded scripting... > > Neither Java nor C# are scripting languages. I know. But VB wasn't too :) Then came VB Script. Anyways, this part is only slightly related to the topic. > Linux is not Windows. Of course not, you want to compare a kernel with a kernel+(rest of the system)+windowingsystem+desktopenvironment? It's unfair! Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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