[RFC] Use glib-2.0 exclusively
Braden McDaniel
braden at endoframe.com
Thu Aug 26 21:25:36 PDT 2010
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 20:49 -0400, Daniel Macks wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:36:33 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
> glibc is only available on a subset of pkg-config platforms.
Of course... Sigh. I was conveniently forgetting that point.
--
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>
More information about the pkg-config
mailing list