Re: Proposing module: PyGTK

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:17 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
>
> > Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:32 +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Also, as a third party developer having Pygtk in the desktop would make 
> > > > a difference to me when I was chosing language to use for my 
> > > > application. Since I could then count on every GNOME desktop to have the 
> > > > bindings, rather than having an extra dependency to bug users with...
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > No, distros will ship what they want. They don't care whether we put a
> > > library in our Desktop release set. They can only be forced to ship a
> > > library if they really want an application that uses it.
> >
> > If our desktop depends on it they don't really have a choice if they 
> > want to ship GNOME.
>  
> Yes, if an important Desktop module depends on it, then they must ship
> it. Regardless of whether it's in Desktop or Bindings.

So what needs to be decided is whether Python should just be a binding 
*to* our platform or be *part of* our platform. Imho it should be part 
of the platform, not a binding to it. And therefor I think it should go 
into it rather than being in the bindings platform.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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