Hi, Mark Leisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I haven't attempted to install any of the newer versions of GTK, so > I haven't encountered difficulties yet, but I probably will. what makes you think you will? I'd say that GTK+ installs out of the box in 99% of all installation attempts. People only run into problems if they want to install stuff outside the default prefix. And if people knew a bit about how a UNIX system works and would read the documentation that comes with the tarball, they would be able to solve their problems easily. > My personal opinion is that this was a forced paradigm shift in > configuration that may make good technical sense, but was premature. > The technical merits of this move do not clearly address the > deficiencies of the older procedure. If they had, I doubt > compilation and installation problems would be cropping up so > frequently, because people would grasp the necessary procedure > changes much quicker. > > The advent of "configure" dramatically simplified compiling and installing. > That simplicity seems to have disappeared. Was this really necessary? I'm following the glib, gtk+ and gimp development for quite a while now (since 1997 IIRC) and I'd say that installation from source has never been easier than today. pkg-config made the life much easier for both developers and users. Earlier people had to tweak CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other environment variables or specify akward configure option that you only ever can get right if you know exactly how to use your compiler and linker. Nowadays all that people need to do is to install pkg-config and setup PKG_CONFIG_PATH correctly. Unless the system is really akward, 'configure ; make ; make install' should work fine afterwards. Well, back in the old days when glib was part of gtk+ and gtk+ was part of gimp, things have probably been easier. But you don't want that situation back, do you? Salut, Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list