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[Matthew Flaschen]

marc wrote:
> For example, I could write something in Java, but that presupposes Java 
> is in the distro. Ditto, say, c# and mono. And what about ruby, or 
> jruby? That's what I'd like to ascertain.

There are no hard and fast rules about what languages packaged programs
can be written in.  You just have to make sure your package integrates
well with the language packaging, and if the language isn't in the
distro at all, you may have to write a package for it first.

Matt Flaschen