> String handling and containers are sort of limited lowlevel things > though. I don't think anyone has a problem with using the language > native versions of these. Especially since the gnome platform story on > these are quite weak. > > However, a platform like pyton is much richer. It contains many things > that directly conflicts with our platform. Config APIs (gsettings), http > support (soup), file handling and streams (gio), ssl support > (glib-networking), etc. Isn't there even talk about a native python > widget toolkit?
I don't think that is fair. I'm happy that I was able to do all these things using the python standard library while waiting for the GNOME libraries to catch up. Now that we have gio,gsettings,soup,json etc (and g-i support) I will use them instead. Almost every language lets you shoot yourself in the foot in a myriad of ways but if the argument is that pythons failing - 'you might mistakenly choose to use non/incompatible GNOME libraries' is bad, then I think that is a weak argument. Regards, John _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list