Dan Winship wrote: >> Does it make sense to you to use have three or four different DOM >> parsers in memory at the same time? > > No, it doesn't, but we already have three XML(ish) parsers linked > into every C-based GNOME app (libxml2, expat, and GMarkup). And yet, > GNOME is *better* now than it was when we only had one XML parser.
I bet guys running GNOME in old computers wouldn't agree with this. >> the problem is that there are many other pieces that are also >> overlapping with the GNOME framework, and that can do nothing but >> mess up the desktop. > > How exactly are these apps going to mess up the desktop? Let's take > Tomboy, since it's on the table. What *precisely* does Tomboy do that > messes up the desktop (that it wouldn't do if it was written in C)? > > > And if your argument is really "languages that come with their own > frameworks are bad",and not just "I hate mono", then why didn't you > argue against allowing python-based apps in the platform when that > came up a year and a half ago? I missed it. :-/ Actually, what is puzzling me is that nobody else did it. You cannot even imagine how many people think like this.. I guess there are too many interests around these adoptions, I don't know. In any case, IMHO using Python to develop basic desktops applications is as wrong as using Mono or any other framework. And, don't take me wrong. I said *basic* desktop applications. Projects like Alacarte are okay; those are applications that you may use once a week/month. However, when we speak about an applet that will be loaded each single time you boot for PC things change. We ought to be extra careful with those. -- Greetings, alo. http://www.alobbs.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
