On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:31:13 -0400
Jamie McCracken <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why?
> 
> Whilst it has some interesting ideas, its a mere prototype and is by and
> large irrelevant to gnome as it stands (and thats true of gnome-shell as
> well - they are both purely experimental)

Both the new GNOME Shell and GNOME Zeitgeist are going to be core components
of GNOME 3.0, according to [1].

> If the ideas prove worthy it will be rewritten in a non-vm language and
> will likely use tracker which is infinitely more powerful given the
> ability to show all your docs, music, photos as derived from its indexer
> 
> I very much doubt an important always on component will be acceptable if
> its coded in a VM - that has been the way with gnome to date and I dont
> see that changing

I sure hope so. Using Vala would give most of the benefits of C# without
incurring in the same overhead.


[1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Plan
-- 
Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.

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