Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

> > What I propose is to make
> > popular scripting languages like Python and Perl (I
> > have nothing against lisp
> > dialects, but there are much more programmers who
> > know Python or Perl than who
> > know lisp) a requirement of gnome (so e.g. gnome
> > won't run without them), and
> > so that bindings for these languages are shipped
> > with gnome, and it would be
> > highly appreciated from utility authors to write
> > their utils not in C, but in
> > either Perl or Python. This will result in
> > availability of a ton of
> > feature-rich, polished and intelligent and helpful
> > utilities available with
> > gnome.

And it will also result in at least one fewer Gnome user.  Me.

-b