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Re: python bindings official or alpha ?
by bero on Wednesday 20/Mar/2002, @05:03

<i>For Python to really make it as a language under KDE, you would need to have support at the core level. That is, you install KDE, you have the Python bindings, period.</i>

We should not repeat GNOME's mistake of requiring python and probably 200 other languages for a base install just because some applications are written using it. We don't want a 1 GB base install... (Remember that we could do just the same thing for C#, Java, C, Objective-C bindings... There's no real reason why Python is more important than any of those).

It's a sort of chicken and egg problem - distributors will start picking up PyKDE once there are applications for it. Developers will pick up PyKDE once they're aware of it, which is often by seeing it in a distribution.

For a start, I'll add PyKDE in one of the next Red Hat Linux releases; it's too late for the next one, unfortunately.

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