Re: [gnome-love] Hello GNOME lovers

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> Currently, it seems like the standard is C for most programs included in
> the Desktop and Platform. I'd like to see that change, but there's no
> way that people will settle for maybe one or two languages to add on to
> C. Personally, I think C# would do a good job, and Python too. Maybe
> IronPython (one VM :), but that wouldn't use PyGTK, as I understand it.

Recent discussion on desktop-devel-list suggests that there is a strong
consensus to allow use of pygtk [1] in GNOME Desktop [2] modules if
maintainers find that useful.

[1] And gnome-python if that is part of the GNOME Bindings [2].
[2] The Platform, Desktop, and Bindings release sets are described here:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.9/
and
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/

Murray Cumming
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