On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 07:03 -0500, Sean Kelley wrote:
> Indeed, I find it ironic that in light of recent moves to expand the
> Gnome tent to include Mobile and Embedded devices as at GUADEC this
> year, that there is at the same time an effort to push MONO into the
> stack. At what price are these moves being made or considered? Like
> Havoc said, innovation at the cost of performance and memory usage is
> not innovation in my book.
>
> One item that Jeff mentioned at GUADEC that I recall is that it is not
> far from reality that their will be more Gnome embedded/mobile devices
> than desktop installs at some future date. This sort of development
> is going on full speed.
>
> I personally think more thought needs to be put into the decision than
> simply the inclusion of pet applications.
The current proposal is to add GTK# to the official Bindings set, and
Tomboy to the official Desktop set. The Platform set, which is the only
set relevant to embedded devices, isn't changed, and unless I'm mistaken
the current rules are that whilst Desktop applications can use Bindings,
Platform is pure C.
Personally, I have an interest in embedded use, but see no problem with
GTK# entering Bindings. There are some great applications written in
Python and C#, and none of them are useful in the embedded context as
they are *desktop* applications.
Ross
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