Re: Using C++ bindings for desktop/admin/devtools modules

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 3/17/07, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, right now there is a bit of a mindset in the free
> > software world that if you're a C++ hacker, you belong in KDE, and if
> > you're a C hacker, you belong in GNOME. I think a decision to accept
> > applications written with C++ bindings in all GNOME release suites
> > would send a positive signal to other C++ developers that there is
> > top-notch C++ support for developing within GNOME, and there's a
> > vibrant C++ developer community within GNOME as well.
> >
> > So obviously I'm very much in favor of accepting gtkmm / C++ apps in
> > all of the GNOME release suites.
>
> As a C++ developer who almost decided to join KDE instead of GNOME
> several years ago for the reasons Jonathon listed, I mostly agree with
> him.  The part I don't agree with is the "in _all_ of the GNOME
> release suites"; I don't think that gtkmm/c++ apps or libs should be
> allowed in the developer platform suite.

Right, I guess when I said 'all', I was only thinking about the
desktop/admin/devtools suites that vincent originally mentioned.  I
wasn't trying to argue for C++ in the developer platform.  Just so
that's clear.

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jonner