[Soylent-devel] Mayanna

[kalterregen gmx net (Sven Pfaller)]

I thought this could be interesting. Here is a little mail-conversation I had 
with Alex from the Mayanna project. You can follow the discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mayanna/browse_thread/thread/8ca7ab8880e801a8

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Hi everyone, hi Alex!

First of all: I didn't know Mayanna nor Gimmie before, but had a look at them
yesterday. Both seem to be very cool projects and I will certainly try out
Mayanny in the near future. Your reasons to fork Gimmie sound reasonable, so I
wish you all good luck for your ambitious project! :)

Okay, for everyone, this is what Alex wrote in my blog (at
http://www.kalterregen.de):
> Hello Sven!
> I?m Alex from the mayanna (fork of gimmie) desktop organizer/hub. We at mayanna are very interested in your work on libsoylent. So there are a few things I?d like to know more about.
> 
> What exactly will libsoylent provide? Widgets? Functionality? Both?
> 
> Will there be python bindings?
> 
> Will libsoylent be dependant on gnome/gtk/gobjects?
> 
> Best of luck for your work!
> 
> alex

libsoylent will provide functionality only. There are plans for another library,
libsoylent-gtk, which will provide common widgets for people management /
interaction (e.g. a people-browser, a widget to synchronize people with the
addressbook etc.).

libsoylent won't depend on gtk or gnome (and generally tries to pull only few
dependencies). It will be written in C and make use of Glib/GObject. So its
dependencies are:
* glib
* telepathy, mission-control, empathy
* E-D-S

Currently no python-bindings are planned, but it would be really nice to have
them. As libsoylent is written in C with GObject it should be pretty
straight-forward to generate bindings. So anyone who wants to do it is strongly
encouraged to :) .

Hopefully by the end of the week I will publish the more-or-less complete API
draft. If you are interested you can subscribe to my blog and the Soylent
mailinglist:
* Blog: http://www.kalterregen.de
* Mailinglist: http://lists.codethink.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soylent-devel

Any suggestions for the API are really appreciated :) . Hopefully libsoylent
will be complete by the end of GSoC, i.e. in the middle of august.

Hope that was usefull for you :)
Have a nice day, all - Sven