Re: Where is Gnome heading?

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 19:04:10 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
Daniel Kasak wrote:
Please consider embracing C#
I don't think so. The minute people start rewriting bits of gnome in C#
is the minute I jump ship.
So you'd stick with C, even if higher-level languages were used to
write the GUI portions of applications (such as Python with PyGTK or
C#/Mono with GTK#)? Even when those higher-level languages make the
applications easier to maintain and develop cool new features for? For
the record, GNOME already includes a few major applications written in
C#: notably Tomboy [1], F-Spot [2], and Beagle [3].

Yeah, I know and I'm still waiting for C/C++/Python implementations of
them.

I think people are more than aware of the
legal minefield Gnome would be wading into by embracing a Microsoft
technology such as C#.
C# is not a Microsoft technology. Sure, they were one of the initiators
of it, but the language itself is an accepted standard (ECMA-334 [4])

Yes, the language is standardised, however the libraries are not. Also,
"ECMA standard" sounds a lot more impressive than it really is:

"Ecma is the inventor and main practitioner of the concept of "fast
tracking" of specifications drafted in international standards format
through the process in Global Standards Bodies like the ISO. Since
1986, when fast tracking was introduced to ISO, over 75% of
fast-tracked standards have been fast-tracked through Ecma.

Ecma is driven by industry to meet the needs of industry, generating a
healthy competitive landscape based on differentiation of products and
services, rather than technology models, generating confidence among
vendors and users of new technology."

/M

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