On 23/06/16 11:22, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> If there is a compelling advantage to splitting up libraries, of course,
>> by all means do so.
>
> I have an example: gspell:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell
To be clear, I'm
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If there is a compelling advantage to splitting up libraries, of course,
> by all means do so.
I have an example: gspell:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell
The non-GUI parts could be implemented in GIO, with an extension point
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:47:02PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Link it against gtk-3.0-wayland instead of both the x11 and wayland
> versions, and try again? My nautilus links against 25 X libraries, both
> the old-school versions and the xcb async versions. And to wayland libs
> as well as Wayl
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 22/06/16 13:14, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> > Time for another Project Ridley?
>
> Maybe; or maybe the benefit of those 30 extra libraries outweighs their
> cost (CPUs are faster now than in the GNOME 2 days after all), but we
> st
On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 14:14 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 05:07:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > 2. Add experimental features through external libraries (libsexy
> > > and so
> > > on?)
>
>
>
> > and linking a large number of tiny libraries has a measurable
> >
On 22/06/16 13:14, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> Time for another Project Ridley?
Maybe; or maybe the benefit of those 30 extra libraries outweighs their
cost (CPUs are faster now than in the GNOME 2 days after all), but we
still shouldn't introduce more without good reasons.
If there is a compelling
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 05:07:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > 2. Add experimental features through external libraries (libsexy and so
> > on?)
> and linking a large number of tiny libraries has a measurable startup
> cost for applications.
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2008/10/07/towards-
