Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

Hey, MJ.

    Guile is already the "official"  Gnome extension language, isn't it?
    Or am I misled?  I don't use Gnome any more.

In theory, yes, I guess.

In practice,  however, there  are way too  many Gnome  applications that
should use a real extension language but use XML instead.

On  the other  hand, XML  could be  seen as  any extension  language (no
matter how ugly).  In this case, the "official" Gnome extension language
you are misled: this place is occupied by Gnome's XML library.

LibXML is  one of the  few standard packages that  make part of  a Gnome
install.  Guile is nowhere near, is it?

The only feature I  can see XML has that makes it  better that Scheme as
an extension  language is  its DTDs.  Unfortunately,  it is  *much* more
used than Scheme in today's world.  :(

Thanks.

Alejo.
http://bachue.com/alejo

Ps: Don't waste your  time telling me how much XML  sucks and calling me
names for comparing it with Scheme:  I know! :/

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