[RFC] Use glib-2.0 exclusively

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Thu Aug 26 17:36:33 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 21:20 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: 
> ]] Enrico Weigelt 
> 
> | * Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> schrieb:
> | 
> | > However, I cannot see any reason that pkg-config could 
> | > not do the same thing with glib2 (and its dependencies: zlib). 
> | 
> | Is there any technical reason to move to glib2 ?
> | What does it have that's _needed_ and the current in-tree glib1
> | does not have ?
> 
> A working option parser implementation, for instance.  Less code to
> maintain.

GNU argp, for instance.

It's Good Enough for a lot of things; and it's part of glibc.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>



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