Re: Revisiting the Gnome Bindings

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 18:46 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> When the Gnome Bindings Project came about at the end of last year, I was 
> very excited about it. Really excited in fact, as there are many gtkmm or 
> perl apps gtk apps around (and even more pygtk ones).
> 
> But 10 months later, I haven't seen a *single* distro that has packaged the 
> gnome-bindings the way everyone expected. Sure, Fedora includes pygtk and 
> gtkmm, but I don't think they did so with the gnome-bindings in mind. The 
> whole point of creating the bindings was so bindings had a common point of 
> release in conjuction to gnome releases for more consistency, and also that 
> distros would pick them up and package them/include them on their distros.

I always thought the main point of gnome-bindings was to encourage
bindings to follow the GNOME release schedule, keep up to date with the
API changes, and to promote little-known bindings.

Distributions package what they want, and if (say) Fedora doesn't
include Java I don't see how they could package java-gnome (although it
probably works under GCJ/Kaffe, this was just an example).

Ross
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