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On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Arnaud Gardelein <arnaud AT oscopy DOT org> wrote:
> Le dimanche 06 septembre 2015 à 10:39 +0300, Vladimir Zhbanov
> (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] a écrit :
>> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 11:35:49PM +0000, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> ...
>> > You have my agreement until you get to scheme. Irrespective of
>> > technical attracting new developers is harder when you are using a
>> > language that is itself falling in popularity. It is just another
>> > barrier to entry for new contributors. Most people already know C
>> > almost no one comes to this project already knowing scheme.
>> Some fifteen years ago, in my DOS/Windows life, nobody around me
>> programmed in C. What I saw were Pascal/Delphy, various Basic's and
>> Assemblers. After moving on Linux, I found C is everywhere, beginning
>> from kernel. Again, around me Unix/Linux is a marginal stuff.
>> >
>> > Even John Dotty seemed to agree that we need an alternative to scheme.
>> Yes, yes, I could even agree ;) But not two parallel versions with new
>> dependencies in one repository. How to support them? How to support
>> cross-compiling in this case? There is another way. Let's make bindings
>> for various languages since gobject model allows this. Let's introduce
>> plugins/modules, and we already have modules in scheme.

While I like the idea of scripting interfaces, doing that using GObject can
be tricky.  Its worth noting that the Gtk folks consider the language bindings
bug prone and hard to maintain.  The recent addition of introspection to Gtk
was intended mainly to help with this, I don't know if it has (haven't
done it since).

Britton