Just a small flame quencher (i hope): This discussion shouldn't be about languages. DBus removes the differences. It's the grand desktop unifier. C, Mono, C++, Cobol their all the same to the IPC.
2006/10/23, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > [ cross-post reduced d-d-l ] > > > > Jamie McCracken wrote: > >> Some people might not like that but I think its a practical compromise. > >> With tracker being the only one written in pure C it is therefore the > >> only one that can *ultimately* get into the Gnome platform and be fully > >> integrated (at the moment I am just proposing it for desktop which is > >> just a simple blessing nothing more). > > > > > > What is the problem with having C++ into the platform? After all C++ > > does not bring more dependencies, and C++ does not implies C++ APIs. > > > > Is there any written policy or is that just personnal anti-C++ FUDing > > like it is pretty common in the Gnome world with mostly misinformed > > statement about performance, etc ? > > AFAIK GNOME platform is currently C only. > > FWIW, I have nothing against C++ or any other *native* (IE non-VM) > language being included there. > > > -- > Mr Jamie McCracken > http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
