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[gtk-list] Re: Pure Gtk vs Gnome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Stone)
Tue Nov 3 20:53:20 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:53:21 +0900 (JST)
From: Scott Stone <sstone@ume.pht.co.jp>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199811030302.WAA06981@stute.jacobus.stevens-tech.edu>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 gandalf@pobox.com wrote:
>
> Hiya.
>
> I have been writting a little app in Gtk, and have just finished taking the
> plunge and converting my code to be gnome aware. Now I have firmly decided
> that I want to continue to develop my app as gnome aware.
>
> The question I have for people is, do you think it is worth having a seperate
> "gtk only" version?
>
> I can see how I can wrap most of it so that i can continue to develop both,
> with little duplicate coding. But is it worth the effort? I have played a
> little and it seems you can run the gnome aware version without an active
> gnome session. However since it is linking against gnome libs and not just
> gtk libs, it still would require gnome (or at least gnome-lib) to be installed
> to run.
>
> I don't want to start a war over this, but I am honestly interested in hearing
> what people think of this. I would obviously prefer to give myself less work,
> but i am not sure I want to limit myslef to only gnome users.
>
> Also, if people have ideas/hints/tips about how to maintain two such versions,
> I would love to hear them.
why not just package your app with the libgnome sources and at compile
time, check if they exist on the system already - if not, build a static
.a version of it and link with it..?
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@pht.com, sstone@pht.co.jp>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)
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