gnome2 port?

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

JP and I have been throwing around the idea of moving development of
gIDE to the gnome2 platform.  The idea is that the current gIDE release
"schedule" has 1.0 being released sometime after gnome2 is out.  So the
question is when we want to do the port.

Some benefits of porting now include:

* Less effort - the longer we spend waiting to port to 2.0, the more
code will be developed that needs porting.

* Helping the gnome2 effort by uncovering bugs.

* The ability to develop against the nice gnome2 APIs.

* We get to play with gnome2

The drawbacks of the porting are:

* We lose some time on the porting that we could be implementing
features and fixing bugs (note however that we'll lose more time at this
point the longer we wait).  The biggest problems I see will be scintilla
and possibly the upcoming GdlDock (but possibly not).

* We have to deal with an immature platform.  A port to gnome2 would
likely require us to debug some of the gnome2 libraries themselves.

* We have to move from ETree to GtkTree, at least until gal is ported to
gnome2

* Most importantly, we raise the difficulty level of contributing to
gide.  A full gnome2 tree takes awhile to build, and isn't the easiest
thing in the world.

The last point is the major one.  What is everone's opinion on this? 
I'm all for a gnome2 port of gIDE, but I don't want to ostracize our
contributors.

-dave