Please define migration

Posted Nov 25, 2003 22:29 UTC (Tue) by rmstar (guest, #3672)
In reply to: Please define migration by kdart
Parent article: Major vendors to push Linux to the desktop (InfoWorld)

KDE is primarily C++,and Gnome is primarly C

Precisely because of this reason this is good news for all those who do not use C++, but instead some of the other languages, like Python, Common Lisp, Ruby, whatever.

This will mean a saner language to interface with when writing bindings and apps.

Please define migration

Posted Nov 25, 2003 23:56 UTC (Tue) by kdart (guest, #486) [Link]

Yes. In fact, that is one big reason I use Gnome because I like the GTK/Gnome Python bindings. 8-)

Please define migration

Posted Nov 26, 2003 0:16 UTC (Wed) by juanjux (guest, #11652) [Link] (1 responses)

There are also KDE and Qt binding for some other languages (C, C#, Python, Java and others I now don't remember).

Please define migration

Posted Nov 27, 2003 14:50 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]

Don't ask what kind of interfaces. For any language except C++, GTK is waaayyy more
comfortable to program. Linking against C++ is very hard. I'm co-author of Free Pascal,
and we still do not have C++ linking; just because it is so much trouble. Instead it looks
like we will do automatic wrapper generators to solve this stuff.

You would expect that I use Gnome because of that reason. Nope. I like KDE much
more. However, for development, GTK is the better solution.