Subject: Re: AbiWord 0.7.7
From: Matt Coulson (mcoulson@calderasystems.com)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 15:14:16 CST
I see the point when going back to the basic X libraries, I guess I am
going to need to evanagalize more here at Caldera Systems. I worked hard to
get GTK in since many of our developers want to avoid Gnome like it is a
plague, I am still working on making sure that it gets into our next
distro. I understand the desire to leave the X libraries, they are a real
pain in the ass to work with, I did some mesa work with them, and I
probably won't do any more. I was only wanting to make sure that everybody
using Linux could use this. Hell I will forget Qt, and get this to compile
correctly (without messing with the code too much).
Matthew Coulson
Ted Lemon wrote:
> > In this situation I think that it should be written
> > using X's libraries rather than any of the libraries of GUI's under X.
>
> Please don't take this as *too* sarcastic, but this statement is very
> much analogous to saying "the C compiler can't be counted on, so let's
> implement this in assembler."
>
> In point of fact, Gnome and Gtk+ RPMs are available from
> www.gnome.org, so for most people this is a no-brainer. If you don't
> have sources, getting the libraries to compile is easy. At least it
> is on NetBSD, which is an architecture hardly any Gnome or Gtk+
> developers use. If it's easy on NetBSD, and it's not easy on your
> system, your problem is your system, not the Gnome or Gtk+
> distribution. The solution is to do some testing and release
> engineering before you ship new versions of your system, not to
> suggest that some AbiWord hacker should spend valuable, scarce time
> reimplementing Gtk+ or, even worse, inventing Yet Another Toolkit.
>
> _MelloN_
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