From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 28 16:10:52 2006
From: "Joseph Kerian" <jkerian () gmail ! com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:10:52 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
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This makes sense. Could we please get
http://developer.kde.org/policies/commitpolicy.html#17 updated to
remove examples of unacceptable non-standard tools "python, ruby".
Ideally, a listing of the major acceptable languages would be
appropriate here.

If I understand this thread correctly, currently:
Standard Tools include: C++, C, Ruby, Python (or potentially any other
language for which kde-bindings are in svn), cmake, all Qt utilities
(moc, uic, etc), all KDE utilities (kconfig_compiler, etc) +
dependencies of the above
Undesirable, but currently used/needed in some places: gcc-isms,
automake/conf, shell scripting

On 9/28/06, Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, 28. September 2006 16:07, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>
> > Both at the kdegames BOF and kdeedu BOF there was discussion about if
> > programs created enterely in Ruby/Python/etc are going to be allowed to be
> > in main modules of kde for KDE 4.
>
> The TWG actually thinks about requiring that at least one central application
> in KDE 4 is not written in C++. But this is not finally decided yet. So if
> you can provide one, we'd be more than happy to take it. So a clear "yes"
>
> Dirk
>
>