Hi Charles, > Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>>It's such things that makes some people think GLib is a GNOME >>>or graphical library and should be avoided at all. >> I agree. There are some overlappings though. But since there are >> already some of the core libraries of the GNOME desktop in /usr we >> should just stay with it. > I support the /opt/gnome2/ (or whatever) idea for gnome libs and apps. > However, I wouldn't cry -- and would probably support -- the idea of > NON-gnome libs, which are currently not yet part of cygwin, but which > gnome uses, to live in /usr. Like glib, audiofile, etc. > OTOH, gtk+, being a windowing library, could go either way IMO. If it > goes in /opt/gnome2/, then later some genius could provide gtk+win which > could live in /opt/gnome2-win/ and use MSW windowing+cygwin(*) instead > of X+cygwin. (I assume that the folks behind this gnome-push are > thinking X-based, right?) OTO-Other-H, gtk+ != gnome, and there are > plenty of non-gnome apps that use plain-old-gtk; this mitigates against > /opt/*. I have actually not started to build gtk+-2.4.x, I think it should be possible to include both versions in one package. > Good thing I'm not in charge of these decisions, or nothing would get > done. :-) [...] Gerrit -- =^..^=