Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 03/18/01 Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> GNOME 1.4 will include bindings for C++, python, guile, and rep (in
> addition to C). It will not contain perl bindings because the folks on
> gnome-1.4-list who know about such things said they were not as mature
> or complete.

Probably it was my mistake for not subscribing to the gnome-1.4 mailing
list and pushing for the "official" inclusion of Gtk-Perl in the release.
I searched the archives for discussions on the perl binding but
I couldn't find any (or the search doesn't work:-).

The perl binding is as mature and complete as the other official
gnome scripting languages (if not more: anyone invited to the
pissing contest here, but I think I could provide hard numbers for 
that:-). As far as I'm concerned, the only thing missing in
the perl binding is more advocacy.

There is going to be a new release in a couple of days, so if
that gets also officially blessed all the better.

lupus

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