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[Robert Bruce Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 13-03-20 03:21 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Robert Bruce Park < 
> robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yeah, and I heard some african guy mention something about a
>> phone, too.
> 
> Har har. :P I wasn't sure about the end goal and didn't want to
> spread misinformation based on my understandings since I couldn't
> find a direct quote. 'Cause we all know how badly that can go of
> late. Besides, the space man wasn't the source.

Heh, sorry. I don't know why I've been such a sarcastic jerk lately.
It was just a really bizarre thing to read, considering that there are
some Qml applications which are currently working *better* on the
desktop than they are on the phone. So that's already a thing. Not
some rumour started by one dev.

As far as I can tell, the Qml implementation is itself "complete" on
both the desktop and the phone (at least, it's complete enough that
you can write an application that runs and looks nice. perhaps there
are a few details left to be ironed out, but things are essentially
functional). It's just a matter of writing the apps now.

> My bad. What I had been trying to ask (in a backwards, completely 
> unintelligible way) was if the job of bringing in python would be
> left to the community at large instead of relying on Canonical devs
> to lead the charge on hooking python into the phones GUI stuff. (As
> I tried to imply I realize hands must be full with whipping the
> "new" toolkit into shape.) I understand that python is not all
> there yet.

Well, I can't speak for the whole company in any official capacity,
but my impression as a low-level grunt is that there is a large
internal push to move away from Python, so I doubt you'll be seeing
anybody from Canonical developing Qml bindings for Python any time
soon. I personally think it would be nifty to see the community work
towards that kind of goal, though.

I also think it would be nifty to see some Clojure bindings... ;-)
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