Re: Re:Mono bindings a blessed dependency? [Was: Tomboy in 2.16]

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 20 avril 2006 �2:38 +0200, David Neary a �it :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Elijah Newren said:
> > But, a more important question: We currently only allow apps using the
> > python bindings into the desktop.
> 
> Is this true, or is it just because no-one's ever asked? I don't see any
> reason why a gtkmm app like glom couldn't be considered for the desktop
> - I wasn't aware any gtkmm apps had actually asked to be incuded in the
> core desktop release.

Hrm. I'd say no-one asked :-)

> > There are other languages bindings
> > in our release set, but none of them have been similarly blessed. 
> > Assuming Gtk# is added to the bindings set, should it be a language
> > core apps can use?
> 
> That's an interesting question - put another way, should the desktop
> depend on the bindings? I certainly wouldn't have a problem with that -
> although making GNOME depend on Mono is an issue which would give me
> more pause than making it depend on gtkmm.

The desktop already depends on the bindings since we have some python
love in the desktop :-) The question is, do we accept all languages in
the desktop, or just a small selection of what's available in the
bindings (and which selection?).

Vincent

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