Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 20:45 +0100, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
> Joe Shaw wrote:
> 
> >> It is a very different situation. While the power manager support
> >> provides new functionality, GTK# would only provide duplicate
> >> functionality for another development framework that overlaps with
> >> GNOME.
> >
> > Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but this argument doesn't make any
> > sense to me.
> >
> > Gtk# isn't an application, so by itself it's not useful and doesn't
> > really duplicate anything.  It does provide a native API to Gtk#,
> > but traditionally language bindings have been considered a strength
> > of GNOME.  Gtk# calls into Gtk+, so it's not like we have two
> > competing implementations of the toolkit here. I don't see the
> > duplicate functionality here.
> 
>   My mistake, I didn't explain it correctly. What I meant was that the
>   group of Gtk# plus Mono overlaps with a big chunk of the desktop. My
>   understanding is that GNOME is a development framework and Mono is
>   another one completely unrelated. Both of them have quite big class
>   libraries: XML parsers, string management, asynchronous I/O, etc.
> 
>   Of course it is possible to use both of them for writing a single
>   cool application, although it doesn't seem to be technically correct
>   because of all the duplicate code: there would way too many unneeded
>   possible failure points and wasted resources.
> 
you are right, but what is so different with Mono that this wasn't
raised when Python was included?
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>