Dropping *-config support?
Tollef Fog Heen
tfheen at err.no
Wed Sep 1 11:50:42 PDT 2010
]] Dan Nicholson
| On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
| >
| > Hi,
| >
| > it's been ages since anything we care about shipped a
| > glib/gtk+/libgnomevfs/imlib/orbit/gnome-config, so I suggest we drop
| > get_compat_package from parse.c. This will also fix
| > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28668
| >
| > Feedback?
|
| IMO, kill it. At the very least, it should be a default off configure
| option that's ifdef'd out. With gnome 3 on the way, I really doubt
| anyone is still relying on gnome 1 era compat hacks.
Done,
commit 03bd4a55287cd9492c5fde6adb1ac81a37b75cce
Author: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no>
Date: Wed Sep 1 20:48:57 2010 +0200
Drop support for legacy -config scripts
We used to call gnome-config, gtk-config, glib-config and so on, which
was useful in the beginning of pkg-config. This hasn't served any
practical purpose in recent years, so drop the support.
parse.c | 334 ---------------------------------------------------------------
parse.h | 2 -
pkg.c | 21 +---
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-)
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Tollef Fog Heen
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