<quote who="Michael Still"> > > Controversially, it's based on Mono. Hmm. :-) > > I was reading an article the other day (from somewhere on the OnLamp site) > that implied pretty strongly that Mono / C# would be the preferred > development platform for Gnome 3.0. Is that correct?
Though Edd (Dumbill, the author) is certainly a GNOME developer, he nor anyone else in The GNOME Project knows what "3.0" will be at all. There are no plans whatsoever at this stage - the only thing we have general agreement on is that 3.0 will mark the API/ABI compatibility break point, which will probably just mean that we fully remove everything we deprecated during the 2.x releases. :-) Beyond the current crop off applications built on Mono, I don't know what its future will hold in GNOME. At some stage, we will definitely want to start using managed code (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME "official" software releases... Well, if nothing else is certain, I know for sure that there be a lot of debate. :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ "They are, as I told Telsa, all very small cheques. Indeed our cheques only come in one size, otherwise cheque books would be far too hard to manufacture." - Alan Cox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
