[Sugar-devel] Duplication of Effort: Don't do it.

[Bastien]

Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> writes:

> To be clear, I'm not positively pushing for Qt, but I have invested my
> own time so that people that have a value proposition can bring it on
> more easily. A feeling I have developed during my work on Sugar is
> that people block because think things are harder than they really
> are. Those who have a good idea of the difficulty can make a first
> step showing how it can be done.

I second this way of thinking.

I'm not a Sugar developer, but I'm willing to learn.  

Knowing that things are achievable with various libraries (Qt/GTK) or
technologies (Gecko/WebKit) is key in feeling that I can choose my own
path, or switch to the one that's easier for me (because I met a pygtk
developer last week, or a Qt fan yesterday, etc.)

To leave doors open is another way of lowering the entrance barriers.

What goes into the Sugar core system is another issue IMHO.

-- 
 Bastien