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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 23:00 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > 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?).
> 
I think we should allow everything written with a blessed binding,
provided that code is optional (like nautilus+beagle integration, for
instance), so that we don't force 3rd parties to use them if they don't
want to.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>