Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> [ cross-post reduced d-d-l ]
>
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > Some people might not like that but I think its a practical compromise. 
> > With tracker being the only one written in pure C it is therefore the 
> > only one that can *ultimately* get into the Gnome platform and be fully 
> > integrated (at the moment I am just proposing it for desktop which is 
> > just a simple blessing nothing more).
>
>
> What is the problem with having C++ into the platform? After all C++
> does not bring more dependencies, and C++ does not implies C++ APIs.
>
> Is there any written policy or is that just personnal anti-C++ FUDing
> like it is pretty common in the Gnome world with mostly misinformed
> statement about performance, etc ?

AFAIK GNOME platform is currently C only.

FWIW, I have nothing against C++ or any other *native* (IE non-VM) 
language being included there.


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