John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> writes:
> On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote:
>
>> One of the things I wanted to get done before 2.6 was dropping our
>> dependency on libgnome. For the reasons why, see [1] and [2].
>>
>> With my last series of commits, I managed to drop our dependency on
>> libgnome, libgnomeui and their dependencies. The only real gnome dependency
>> remaining is libgnomecanvas. But according to the information in [2] there
>> currently doesn't seem to be an official alternative for it yet. So that
>> should be ok.
>>
>> I adapted the windows build scripts to no longer install and ship the
>> dropped libraries. The Windows installer got 4Mb smaller as a result :)
>>
>> It may be interesting for the other platform builders to do a similar
>> cleanup (GnuCash/OSX-Quarz, Macports,...)
>>
>> These are the libraries I dropped from the Windows build:
>> - gnome-vfs
>> - libbonobo
>> - libbonoboui
>> - libgnome
>> - libgnomeui
>> - popt
>>
>> You can check if your build scripts still depend on these. The should be
>> safely removable since r22381.
>>
>
> Yay! Good work!
Ditto! Nice work, Geert!
> As for libgnomecanvas, it's replaced with Cairo. That will take some
> rewriting, but it's necessary to move to Gtk3.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
-derek
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