From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:14:17 EDT
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
> wrote: >
> > > > (1) Make glib 2.0 available on all our platforms
> > >
> > > Can you give us a rough idea what feautures or
> > > specific functions from glib are required? We may
> > be
> > > able to split out what is needed. This would also
> > > count toward "Draining the Swamp".
> >
> > Pango uses glib stuff throughout, types, lists,
> > everything -- I think
> > forking Pango is not a realistic option, and whether
> > we could use
> > just a reduced version of glib, and how reduced,
> > could only be told
> > by trying -- I think porting the whole thing might
> > be easier. (They
> > already have a makefile system for win32)
>
> That means we'll have multiple implementations of
> some basic concepts inside Abi which sounds a bit ugly
> but I don't know how else to avoid it other than
> embracing glib whole-heartedly and using its types
> and lists ourselves - that also sounds ugly ):
>
As does C++ from C. I don't think asthetics should stop us from being
practical.
Cheers
Martin
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