Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com> writes:

> 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.
> 

Sounds like a potential candidate for inclusion in a 1.4.x release, then.

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Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
whacky-ass code cowboy[sic]
Technical Lead, Services Engineering
Eazel, Inc.