On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 17:26, Derek Atkins wrote: > Dependencies are fine when you can assume your user already has it > installed. Problems arrise when that assumption fails. Me, I'm > conservative in that manner and would rather err on the side of > caution and provide a good user experience (which starts when they > download the tarball and read how many damn other libraries they have > to build!). > > So, surely you can understand that a hard-to-build application gets > fewer users, and it's the user-base that makes an application > worthwhile.
This is why GO is important as a meta-project, so that the member projects can share dependencies and GO can be distributed in a manner not dissimilar to OOo or MSO, where the libraries (and both OOo and MSO have many) are installed seemlessly with the suite. Obviously this would be a bit different on Linux where distributions will always have a choice, but it is important from a Windows (and MacOS, QNX?, BeOS?) perspective. -- - Charlie The future of the net - www.xwt.org Charles Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Member of the XWT Foundation _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
