Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
> Dan Winship wrote:
> [snip]
> > And if your argument is really "languages that come with their own
> > frameworks are bad",and not just "I hate mono", then why didn't you
> > argue against allowing python-based apps in the platform when that
> > came up a year and a half ago?
>
>   I missed it. :-/ Actually, what is puzzling me is that nobody else
>   did it.  You cannot even imagine how many people think like this.. I
>   guess there are too many interests around these adoptions, I don't
>   know. In any case, IMHO using Python to develop basic desktops
>   applications is as wrong as using Mono or any other framework.
>
>   And, don't take me wrong.  I said *basic* desktop applications.
>   Projects like Alacarte are okay; those are applications that you may
>   use once a week/month. However, when we speak about an applet that
>   will be loaded each single time you boot for PC things change.  We
>   ought to be extra careful with those.

I'm going to go ahead and pipe up here because I feel like I need to
voice my opinion that Mono should _not_ be part of the core set of
modules for the GNOME Desktop.  This is for a number of concerns which
have already been stated, but it boils down to 1) this is
still too controversial of a topic to make a decision in a single six
month release cycle (with only 3 or so months left) and 2) I think is a
topic that should be left to ISVs to decide.

That being said, I use tomboy/f-spot and I'm glad that a certain ISV
packages Mono and applications based on it,  but I don't see
how adding it lends any coherence or consistency to the GNOME framework.

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