On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:03:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > >>> IMHO the user is not interested in what programming language a tool >>> is written in >> >> That assumption may not hold for all users, especially in science, where >> a lot of users are programmers, and where 'use' may involve programming. > > This "and where 'use' may involve programming" is the key point to understand > my mail. *If* this is the case - and most probably the ITPer can decide > it - than mentioning the programming language makes sense.
Also, if the project in question is mainly dependent on user/developers writing code/plugins to work fine (some window-managers come to mind), mentioning the programming language in the long description looks fine, like "Foo is extensible through python scripts/plugins.". If this is mainly a end-user application, I don't think the programming language should matter at all except in debtags. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
