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[Michel Renon <michel.renon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le 29/01/2014 04:51, Luke Bryan a écrit :
> That's a shame, Python + GTK has always been one of the great reasons to
> write for Ubuntu/Linux.

Yes, but things are changing... Qt5 is so powerful that it's worth doing 
the change.

While being also very disappointed by lack of Python support in Ubuntu 
Touch, I recognize it's only a pragmatic decision : having several 
python runtime running was not possible on a mobile device.

Python is now reserved for desktop/cli only apps.

Maybe with convergence (>= 14.10), there will be some (basic) python 
support for Ubuntu Touch desktop apps ?


>  > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:46:19 -0800
>  > From: nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx
>  > To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Python app tutorial?
>  >
>  > On 01/27/2014 03:42 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
>  > > I thought there was a plan to support python3 in 14.04? We are still
>  > > using Java at the moment (for the Bitcoin app). I was hoping by the
> time
>  > > the Python version was ready, it would be officially supported and we
>  > > could just switch the package over to the Python version.
>  >
>  > They've pretty much publicly stated that Python will never, ever be
>  > supported under any circumstances. Which I find disappointing enough,
>  > but I would definitely find a supported language (hint: it's C++ or
>  > Javascript, and nothing else) to base my app on if I wanted to be ready
>  > for any Ubuntu device shipping in the next two years.

Well, another language is coming : Go.
Rick Spencer acknowledged that Go will be recommended for daemons and
CPU hungry task. Since some weeks, there are some previews of Go binding 
for QML. It seems that you may be able to write all your software in Go, 
except few lines of JS (in QML files) to call Go code.


Regards,
Michel