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> I think we are all getting somewhat off the subject. The post that I originally
> replied to proposed making perl, python and lisp *REQUIREMENTS* for gnome. To me
> (and at least one other), that is not an option and if you do so, you will lose
> me as a user / developer / distributor / advocate.As far as I could tell, he was advocating writing for gnome apps in these
languages. Already we have apps written in C, C++ and a small number in
objc. If you don't happen to have objc on your computer, then the
programs written in objc don't get built. Same for C++. It would be the
same for other languages.
I have already reposted this once, but people seem to
have missed it again. This is the section of text I was referring
to. Apologies for the HTML mail, but I want to make it stand out.
> > Ben Ford wrote:Then we agree. Done deal =)
> >
> > > > > What I propose is to make
> > > > > popular scripting languages like Python and Perl (I
> > > > > have nothing against lisp
> > > > > dialects, but there are much more programmers who
> > > > > know Python or Perl than who
> > > > > know lisp) a requirement of gnome (so e.g. gnome
> > > > > won't run without them), and
> > > > > so that bindings for these languages are shipped
> > > > > with gnome, and it would be
> > > > > highly appreciated from utility authors to write
> > > > > their utils not in C, but in
> > > > > either Perl or Python. This will result in
> > > > > availability of a ton of
> > > > > feature-rich, polished and intelligent and helpful
> > > > > utilities available with
> > > > > gnome.
> > >
> > > And it will also result in at least one fewer Gnome user. Me.
> > >
I don't think the idea was to add artificial dependencies (that would be
stupid).
-b