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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jamie McCracken wrote:

> Definitely not - that is unmanageable and unfair.
>
> If something is optional it means there are alternatives and one
> alternative should not block another (as then an inferior alternative
> could block a vastly superior alternative getting into the desktop as
> would be the case with beagle and Tracker)

It's also unacceptable to ask everybody not to add beagle support
simply because you and only you think Tracker is a vastly
superior solution.  This claim was never proved, nor Tracker is
integrated in any core GNOME application that I know of.

> And if you allow all alternatives in you end up with a mess!

--behdad
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