Re: DEBATE: glib, libgsf in main build.

msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> That we've branched for 2.6 I thought we should start and
> hopefuly finish the debate about adding extra dependencies to
> the main build for windows and osx.
...
> Against this is the extra hassle of the build and distribution problems of
> distributing glib and libgsf, particularly the issue of detecting if these
> libs are already present on a users system and if they are making sure
> they're right versions.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin

Assuming glib is required for AbiWord, the best way to go is to install
glib with AbiWord on Windows (put it in the installer), do not rely on
any existing version, thus there are no issues of mismatched libs due to
another application upgrading/downgrading glib. The other issue is you
could loose Win95 support, possibly also older/lower end Win XX users,
not sure as the requirements are geared more towards gimp/gtk and not
glib in particular (which are probably less, so may still work on 95).
glib was a b__ch to build, though that may no longer be the case, and at
least the win port seems to be treated more as part of the project and
not the we don't maintain it port it used to seem (as an outsider to the
glib project). As I haven't had time to help lately, I won't comment
either way on the issue (though you guys probably still recall :-) but
last time this was brought up I thought it was decided to make glib a
requirement for the 2.4/2.6 tree explicitly so I/O could switch to using
libgsf.

Jeremy
Received on Wed Oct 19 14:13:52 2005