[Thunar-dev] next step in thunar development

[Jeff Franks]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>Just to make sure there's no misunderstanding: While this sounds like we 
>are limited to C as implementation language, its not the case. The core 
>will (and has to be) written in C. For the upper layers, esp. plugins at 
>a later time, I can imagine several programming languages. I think Java, 
>C++ and Python are the ones of interest here.
>
Benny,

For XFC 4.3.2 I want to provide wrappers for the Xfce4 libraries and 
this has had me wondering about libexo, your Xfce4 widget extension 
library. Clearly Thunar will depend on this library but it isn't in the 
Xfce4 SVN like Thunar. Does that mean that Xfce 4.4 will depend on an 
external library or do you plan to move it to the SVN. Currently XFC has 
these modules: libXFCcore, libXFCui and libXFCglade. If libexo were in 
the SVN then I could include possibly one or two new modules: libXFCxfce 
and/or libXFCexo.

On another note (please everybody, lets not start a long pointless 
discussion about this) I just wanted to say - I hope everyone thinks 
carefully their choice of language. Their is no doubt C++ has the 
beneift of raw speed and power over Java and Python (which are easier to 
use but slower). Surely, its important to keep Xfce4 not only easy to 
use but fast as well. I think minimizing the number of different 
langauges used to program one application will make future maintenance 
easier. Here are a couple of benchmark links you can check out:

http://www.flat222.org/mac/bench/
http://www.tommti-systems.de/go.html?http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/reviews/languages/benchmarks.html

Regards,
Jeff.