Re: [gnome-db] Gnome-db libraries

["Daniel Espinosa" <esodan gmail com>]

2007/1/23, Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>:
> On 1/22/07, Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com> wrote:
> > 2007/1/22, Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > As you'll notice in SVN, Libgnomedb now has 2 .pc files: one for the
> > > main library, and one for the graph library. The advantages of this
> > > new situation is that:
> > > - one can use libgnomedb without the graph library if it's not needed,
> > > and thus reduces the dependencies and memory consumption
> > > - building and istalling the graph library is optional, and done only
> > > is the GnomeCanvas library is found.
> > >
> > > The question I'm asking is if the "core" libgnomedb library should be
> > > split into two parts as well: one for the data bound widgets (form,
> > > grid, etc) and one for the "administrative" widgets such as the
> > > widgets to handle DSNs, or to show the contents of a dictionary. This
> > > would allow to further reduce memory consumption for applications
> > > which only require data bound widgets. What do you think?
> > >
> >
> > I'm with you, split all in small parts to allow port gnome-db to any
> > other plataforms or widgets sets, I don't know but may other toolkits
> > :-) or projects like maemo could be.
> >
>
> Libgnomedb now is composed of 3 libraries:
> * libgnomedb.so (along with libgnomedb_handlers.so 97K stripped) which
> contains the "minimum" to have data bound widgets and is about 287K
> (stripped) on my box
> * libgnomedb-extra.so which has the GnomeDbSelector,
> GnomeDbDbmsUpdateViewer, GnomeDbReportEditor and GnomeDbGrayBar
> widgets for 88K (stripped)
> * libgnomedb-graph.so which contain GnomeCanvas related widgets for
> 108K stripped.

With this changes the gnomedb-sharp must create one DLL file with each
library so if you install just a part you can use the C# binding for
it.

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