[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>



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