Re: libglade-1.99.1

[Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>]

Why not create a seperate module for libglade-bonobo? (Or in libbonobo
alternatly). Then you can install libglade at any time, and you can add
libglade-bonobo at any point.

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, James Henstridge wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Michael Meeks wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > On 24 Aug 2001, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 08:28, James Henstridge wrote:
> > > >   - Port over Michael's bonobo support.  Support for bonobo (and in the
> > > >     future, gnomeui) is loaded dynamically, so you don't need to use a
> > > >     different init function.  If libbonoboui is not installed, the module
> > > >     won't be built.
> > >
> > > it would be nice if it either required bonobo or the bonobo module was
> > > in bonobo.
> > >
> > > otherwise, apps can't know if there's bonobo support in libglade,
> > > thereby making said support unusable.
> >
> > 	While libglade clearly has value outside the GNOME platform - I
> > think it would be by far the best if the default build was the GNOME
> > build, and that the default GNOME build relied on all the funky
> > technologies we have.
> >
> > 	This will stop all the whacked out package builders in various
> > distros from getting it wrong - and yet still allow people to have gtk
> > only builds.
> >
> > 	How does that sound James ?
>
> The base libglade library remains the same whether gnome stuff is
> installed or not.  Things like bonobo control and gnomeui support are
> built as additional libraries, as in the stable branch (although now they
> are dynamically loaded, rather than having to directly link with them).
>
> Yes, this does mean that if you build things in the wrong order, not all
> the modules will be built.  I suppose I could add a
> --enable-dieing-when-gnome-not-found flag to make sure certain libraries
> get enabled.
>
> Note that all headers required to write addon modules are installed by
> libglade, so it is entirely possible for other libraries to install
> libglade support for themselves.
>
> James.
>
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