[SCIM] scim-lib SHOULD be independent

[James Su]

Yes, exactly. But it can be done by packagers. We can have separated 
binary packages built from one big scim source package. The source code 
remains in one package in order to easily maintain. The binary packages 
are divided into many small ones, including an independent core library 
package.

Regards
James Su

emfox at qingkui.com wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I'm a user of SCIM, thanks for the great project.
>
>At linuxsir.org, i get some discussion about SCIM
>(http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=121911)
> i think i could say something about it.
>
>IMHO, it is the best way to divide SCIM into serveral parts,
>e.g. into scim-lib, scim-gtk, scim-qt, scim-x, scim-other(socket&conf?)
>
>The most important thing is that, scim-lib SHOULD be independent,
>without any GUI related part, like gtk or qt.
>
>Noticed you've mentioned that installing and maintaining work will be
>heavier, i think that's not right anyway. Installing two or three
>binary packages isn't much harder than one :), and if the world will
>be better, the increased maintaining work is valuable :).
>
>and what's the better things will happen after that?
>Many, of course. like, i could develop a scim-ncurse, to use scim
>under console(it sounds exciting, isn't it?), or to develop a
>scim-conf-python, it could use python to config scim(useless?), or
>a scim-wxWidgets(another GUI frontend), etc. OTOH, it'll be easier
>to port scim to other platform, for example, win32.
>
>so that's all, sorry for my poor english :(
>
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