2011/1/21 Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstr...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:46 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 18:19 +0100, Juanjo Marin wrote: > >> >> AFAIK, one of the cornerstone components of GNOME 3 is GObject > >> >> Introspection. I'd like to know which libraries are supposed to > >> >> support GObject Introspection. > >> > > >> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AddGObjectIntrospectionSupport has a > >> > list, not necessarily up-to-date. > >> > > >> >> Another question is which bindings/language will be officially > endorsed > >> >> by the GNOME project. > >> > > >> > The new, yet-to-release developer.gnome.org will focus on C, C++, > >> > Python, Javascript, and Vala. > >> > >> Is C# not a focus of the site because the bindings are behind, because > >> of lack of volunteers to help, or for some other reason? > > > > Actually, I think we're somewhat confusingly conflating the focus > > of developer.gnome.org with what we initially focused on for the > > developer demo tutorials. > > > > We talked about languages at the developer documentation hackfest. > > We weren't trying to exclude any. We just needed to set priorities. > > We decided not to focus on C# and Mono only because it seems to > > already have a healthy developer community of its own. > > > > If any C# developers want to port any of the demos, or write new > > demos, I'm not going to turn down contributions. Same for Java and > > any other language for which we have reasonably up-to-date bindings. > > > > There is the slight issue of tools. We've been writing tutorials > > assuming you use Anjuta, because using an IDE is a more attractive > > entry point for new developers. I don't think the Anjuta developers > > even try to target C# or Java, because there's no point competing > > with MonoDevelop and Eclipse. So for specific languages, we should > > probably just have the tutorials use other IDEs. > > That all makes sense to me, thanks! Maybe once the Mono binding guys > get their next gen stuff released, some folks in that community will > want to contribute a bit to developer.gnome.org. :-)
Hopefully we will have something to show after the post FOSDEM 2011 hackfest targeting GObject-Introspection for .NET. http://live.gnome.org/GNOME%2BMonoHackfest2010 Interested parties are most welcome. - David
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