Re: The GTK2 line of development

["Dale P. Smith" <dsmith@altustech.com>]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 18:31:26 +0100
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> I was wondering myself about that. The thing that binds the projects
> together are the binding generation code (defs-support, gw-utils, etc)
> and that they are all based on the GObject type system, with the
> exception of GLib. Gnome is the overarching project under which all are
> being developed though, and if I had to choose a name that would be it.
> 
> Of course, glib doesn't depend at all on gnome, the current module name
> notwithstanding.
> 
> > (But within one project.  I think all in one would be easiest for
> > development, mainly since I think each higher interface is going to
> > need to know a good deal about how the lower ones are implemented, and
> > there's probably a good amount of common stuff anyway.)
> 
> Yeah. I think, though, since it is all one project, why not have it
> under one namespace?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but please make sure that gtk/glib
can be used (and built!) without gnome.

-Dale

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