Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

["Jos van den Oever" <jvdoever gmail com>]

Just a small flame quencher (i hope): This discussion shouldn't be
about languages. DBus removes the differences. It's the grand desktop
unifier. C, Mono, C++, Cobol their all the same to the IPC.

2006/10/23, 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.
>
>
> --
> Mr Jamie McCracken
> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/
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