Hi, On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 22:16 -0400, Ben Maurer wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Steve Frcinaux wrote: > > Not really. In fact, blessing an app in the desktop has the immediate > > consequency that other apps can depend on it in a non-conditional way. > > For instance, a few distros already ship beagle by default, but most > > only ship it. And I just can't run beagle on my box, it eats up too much > > memory. So if it was proposed for inclusion, including it would mean > > that some Gnome apps would depend on it more or less inconditionally and > > I couldn't run these apps anymore. > > > > That's the kind of problem we want to avoid here. > > This is completely besides the point. Nobody is proposing that beagle be > made a requirement for GNOME. I agree, this would cause a problem for many > low memory users.
In fact, this is one of the main reasons why I haven't yet proposed Beagle for inclusion in the desktop. I am thrilled by people's interest in it, and I think it's a key part of the desktop going forward, but I am not yet satisfied with its performance to suggest that everyone use it. I don't, however, believe that this is directly related to the fact that its core is in C#. It is a solvable problem (although a tricky one, yes). Joe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list