Also to not clutter mailboxes even more, I don't see how an optional dependency on anything can be worse than the fact that GNOME optionally compiles on MS Windows systems.
That GNOME can work on Windows has no effect on what GNOME does in a GNU/Linux system. However, a dependency for GNOME when running on GNU/Linux does have an effect on what GNOME does in a GNU/Linux system. A mandatory dependency is automatically crucial. If the dependency is optional, then it is not necessarily important. But it is not necessarily unimportant either. Its importance is determined by the practical details of the situation. Thus, having some applications written in C# is not an automatic disaster, but the more they are the more the problem. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list