Hello, > Python was the first language to reach enough maturity and ruffle the > least amount of feathers, and that is a point of differentiation with > any language that comes in later. > > The important thing we wanted when Python got accepted was to have at > least one higher-level language to be available for use, and not have a > lot of them. > > So in short, I don't think there is an equal footing, and if people > would want Mono in, it should replace Python, not sit side by side to > it.
This is radically different than your original proposal, when you brought Python up in September 2004. This is what you said: > Why prove Havoc right so quickly ? The discussion on "what language > should go in" has been hashed out numerous times already, don't give > Havoc the satisfaction of predicting our behaviour of degenerating the > discussion into a language discussion. > > I am asking a very concrete, specific thing - here's a module I'm > maintainer of and which I feel would benefit from being written in > something more flexible than C, and I want to use python for it. > > What would happen to the modules involved ? Today the issue of resource usage is brought up as if it were the end of the world, back in the day, Jonathan made the following comment: > I would love to see limited use of python in the desktop release for > GNOME 2.10. I'm not sure we want to see applets or core components > written in python yet, primarily because of the assumed resource hit. > I'd love to be proven that it is feasible, though. It certainly makes > sense for applications with a limited lifespan, such as those in the > control-center or gnome-utilities. Murray at the time posted the following eloquent email on this subject: > > What's the compelling reason to ship bindings? > > Great apps. > > I personally think that "Great development environment" is a more > compelling reason, given that the majority of software development is > in-house stuff that will never be on distros. That really is a vast > huge immense amount of unseen software. The same applies here. I do not think there should be only "one way" of building applications for Gnome. We would not have the official language bindings release if we thought that only C code was worth having. Miguel. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
