Re: [pygtk] Using python + pygtk in Desktop modules (was Re: Revisiting the Gnome Bindings)

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

Johan Dahlin wrote:

Hi,

> I'd say that there are basically two different options:
>
> 1) Include only bindings for Gtk+ and friends (pygtk)
>
> 2) Include bindings for the complete platform, that would include
> bindings for all gnome apis (in gnome-python), orbit (pyorbit), libxml2,
> vte, gstreamer.
>
> In my opinion, if we choose a language, we should choose one which you
> can write applications for the whole stack, or at least as much of it
> that's available.

I totally agree, if we choose to include Python we need to make sure 
that it's a viable solution for developing *GNOME* software, not only 
GTK+ software.

Doesn't Python include an XML parser of it's own? If so, how useful is 
the libxml2 bindings? I don't particulary believe in bindings that has 
to bind all the underlying C libraries just for the sake of it, if there 
is a nicely integrated solution in the language itself (I don't know 
about Python and XML though).

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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