Re: Plans for 2.8 - GNOME Managed Language Services?

[Ryan McDougall <ryan mcdougall telusplanet net>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 14:19 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 12:18, Mark Howard wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:48:32PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > > My suggestion if we want to do something in 2.8 and we can't get people
> > > > behind "open source Java subset" is:
> > 
> > What makes you think that? 
> 
> I didn't say we couldn't get people behind it, just "if we can't..."
> 
> Right now I think some people are arguing to block Java in favor of Mono
> or sticking to C/C++/Python, it's a question of whether we can build
> consensus around one of these answers or not.
> 
> Havoc

If we have a common runtime and object system, there is no need to
"block" Java. It would run on our runtime just as well as C#.

Cheers,
Ryan