Yes, IIRC, it was a request from Aaron Siego to open KDE main tree to other languages than C++. Python perfectly fits in my opinion this request. What is your main problem about this Leo ? Of course, if it was Mono or Java, I think the problem should be different (particularly Mono, because Java 7 is going to be GPL2), but in this case, this is a open source language without any problem, and really well supported.
No, it'd be the first. IIRC, it was talked about some time ago though thatOn Wednesday 26 March 2008 21:17:53 Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb Nicolas Ternisien:
> > > > All modules need porting to KDE4 (and could make nice showcases for
> > > the Python > bindings then). Mountconfig would also need porting to
> > > Solid (it already uses
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> [...]
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> > No other opinion ? If you agree, just say Yes/+1 or No/-1, just to be
> > sure this is something useful, and that will help KDE Admin being more
> > interesting.
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> It looks like Guidance introduces a hard python dependency into KDE. I
> don't particularly like that. Is there any precedent that justifies a hard
> runtime python dependency?
this is actually wanted. (Granted, not for core apps, but in general to open
up more for non-C++ languages and developers.)
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