Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

Ben Ford wrote:

> > > 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.
>

And me. :-).

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Regards,
-Naba

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