[Spice-devel] [announce] alpha glib/gtk client library + app.

[Alon Levy]

----- "Alexander Larsson" <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 22:18 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On 09/30/10 20:41, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 14:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > >
> > >> More later...
> > >
> > > Bit more before I disappear:
> > >
> > > why do you have a spice_channel_destroy()? Its a gobject, just
> unref it.
> > 
> > spice_channel_destroy actually just does a unref (+ debug printf)
> now. 
> > Used to be different.  I'm new to gobject programming, so I didn't
> got 
> > everything right from start.
> > 
> > > I don't like that you have three libs. We've learned this lesson
> in
> > > gnome by now: It seems that splitting things up into small
> separate
> > > libraries is a good thing, but in practice its problematic because
> of
> > > the per-library overhead in things like symbol resolving (one
> extra
> > > lookup per item in the link list, for all symbols).
> > >
> > > So, at a minimum, combine libspice-client-pulse and
> libspice-client-gtk.
> > > Although i'm not really sure we need the separate non-ui library
> > > either...
> > 
> > gtk drags *tons* of stuff.
> > 
> > # ldd spicy | wc -l
> > 64
> > # ldd snappy | wc -l
> > 23
> > 
> > So I think keeping the non-gui (actually protocol parsing and
> software 
> > rendering)  bits separate looks useful to me.  Having gtk+sound
> separate 
> > probably doesn't make that much sense as you likely either use both
> or 
> > none of them ...
> 
> Yes, gtk+ drags in a lot. However, how many non-ui apps will link to
> spice?
> 

replying to alex who is on vacation, I know :) Anyway it could be used for
tests, so I like having a non ui version. Of course there could be one lib
and even if it was linked to gui libraries it could still allow non gui usage (no X / console
client in windows).

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