[ale] the Goneme project

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Mon Oct 25 22:25:20 EDT 2004


All I can say is I wish them success.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jim Philips wrote:

> Some dissident Gnome developers have decided that the dependency nightmare 
> that is Gnome has become too much. They also want more features aimed at 
> higher-level users. Here is one quote from their manifesto:
> 
> "Of primary concern to us is the proliferation of coding languages and 
> toolkits, all piled on top of the original small set. Everyone should be free 
> to choose the toolkit they feel best frames their application. The problem is 
> that the default GNOME installation depends on far too many different 
> toolkits simply to get GNOME compiled. For example, if we remove the current 
> Python dependency alone, we reduce 40MB of space which is used for just one 
> 50kb libglade-convert Python file within GNOME."
> 
> 
> The rest of their goals are laid out here:
> 
> http://www.goneme.org/index_goals.html
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