[Spice-devel] server RFC: 2 significant build-time changes

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 04:58:23PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> This patch series introduces 2 build system changes that are worth some
> attention. The first one disables client build by default as it's deprecated,
> and the second patch adds a dependency on glib2. Both of these patches
> are steps in the right direction in my opinion, but I'm happy with
> dropping them if there is some disagreement over that ;)
> 
> The third patch uses the glib string API in a very specific place, there
> are probably cleanup that can be done in many places by replacing
> home-grown stuff with glib replacements. I also was not sure where
> to add the glib dep, it may be more appropriate to have it in spice-common
> so that we can use it in common/mem.[ch] for example.

Unless someone comes forward with a use case for libspice-server.so
where glib2 would be a serious blocker, I think this is a good move.
It ought to let you remove / simplify alot of cross-platform stuff
spice currently reinvents itself.

Daniel
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