From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ariel Rios To: Seth Alves Cc: guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: suggestions for Guile wrt GTK and Gnome support Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <995948183.1475.22.camel@soleil> References: <200107231740.KAA10213@twinge.hungry.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00004.html On 23 Jul 2001 10:40:34 -0700, Seth Alves wrote: > I would be very very surprised if gtk ever began to depend on gnome. Yes indeed. That will never happen =) > There is a module called gnome-guile in the gnome/gtk cvs tree. It > contains the guile-gtk code, and other code that wraps the more stable > parts of gnome. To build this from cvs, you DO need bits of the gnome > build environment, but these dependencies are simply a convenience for > the maintainer. Perhaps we could try to convince Ariel to break or > reduce these dependencies? A solution might be to fork guile-gtk in stable (1.2) and unstbale (2.0) Strable branch should include the old autoconf stuff and the unstable branch might use pkg-config... >=) These dependencies only exist if you > are building gnome-guile from cvs. If you are building with a tar.gz > style release, you don't need any of gnome. I like gnome-guile. It > needs some polishing in places, but overall it's very effective. What kind of polishing? ariel