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

[Alexander Larsson]

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?

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