[Gegl-developer] Why C and why CVS?

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Nordholts
Hello! I am a big fan of free software and I really like the GEGL initiative. This way GIMP will have a better chance vs Phothoshop. I do, however, have some questions. 1. Why is C picked as the development language? Isn't C++ THE pick for this kind of library (a typical modular based

Re: [Gegl-developer] Why C and why CVS?

2006-03-10 Thread Øyvind Kolås
* Martin Nordholts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060310 13:53]: Oh, 6 years old. Got it. 6 years... I wonder if changing to a higher level language like C++ or better yet C# (mono has good enough support now) would speed up the development. I think it would. What do you guys think? The reason for

Re: [Gegl-developer] Why C and why CVS?

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] GEGL is more than 6 years old. Subversion simply didn't exist at that time. GNOME project has no SVN. Believe me, neither chosen programming language, nor type of versioning system affect (absense of) development of GEGL. FYI, the transistion of

Re: [Gegl-developer] Why C and why CVS?

2006-03-10 Thread Frédéric
Le Vendredi 10 Mars 2006 14:10, Michael Schumacher a écrit : GEGL is more than 6 years old. Subversion simply didn't exist at that time. GNOME project has no SVN. Believe me, neither chosen programming language, nor type of versioning system affect (absense of) development of GEGL. FYI,

Re: [Gegl-developer] Why C and why CVS?

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Frédéric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le Vendredi 10 Mars 2006 14:10, Michael Schumacher a écrit : FYI, the transistion of the GNOME CVS to GNOME SVN is planned for the next weekend. Yes, this is the LGM weekend, and yes, this means that we might not have easy access to the current source of