Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
>  * orca (as a replacement to gnopernicus)
>  * alacarte
>  * gnome-power-manager
>  * Tomboy
>  * Gtk#

Yay, I have no clue, Yay, Yay, and Yay, respectively.

> There's one additional issue to address as well:
>  * Okay to have desktop modules depend on gtk# bindings?

The argument here is "we don't want the desktop to depend on weird
languages where there aren't enough people who could fix bugs / assume
maintainership in the future / etc", right? If so, I think C#/Gtk# is
quite safe. There are lots of people hacking Gtk# apps these days.

FWIW, searching gnomefiles turns up

   110 python/pygtk apps/libs
    59 mono/C#/gtk#
    37 gtkmm/C++
    27 perl
    16 java
     5 ruby

so gtk# is not as popular as python, but it's still already more popular
than any of the other languages/bindings that have been around for
longer than it has. And adding it to the bindings platform will
presumably make it even more popular.

-- Dan