On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Patrick wrote:

Not to push the Python thing but I was wondering, would PyGTK create

another dependency(I assume it would) Would this be a problem if it did?

C/C++ is really for serious programming but other languages like Python

are great for us novice programmers. Would this get more developers

involved and allow for fine tuning by users with basic programming skills?

What I've been promoting is integrating hooks so that extensions in other languages can access and modify things and let Inkscape do all the presentation work. This would most likely be done using a DOM tree representing internals so that things can be accessed in a manner consistent with accessing the document itself.

I'd gone over this with the guys from Scribus, including the main person who'd worked on their integration of python, and he'd said it was a much better approach than having to integrate ui work from Python like they did.