Re: more gnome 2 proposal
- From: Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
- Cc: Alex Graveley <alex ximian com>, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: more gnome 2 proposal
- Date: 11 Mar 2001 14:47:23 +0100
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com> writes:
> I disagree. Huge modules are difficult to build. This is because for
> any given module, there's only a few people that really pay attention
> to build stuff, and the bigger it is, the harder it is for these few
> people to keep things building well and have time to do anything else.
>
> In fact, gnome-libs is the main module we have that's a big grab-bag
> of various stuff, and it's one of the hardest to build.
It'll also cause a lot of trouble for translators, documentation writers
and everyone who ever wants to run a distcheck in that big module.
Before I made my experimental tarballs, I actually tried to create such
a big module instead of a lot of small ones, but I quickly gave up.
In my experimental tarballs, I didn't include any of the docbook stuff or
any translations, but it'll be much easier to do this for a few small
modules that it is for a very big one.
Especially when you're translating a module or writing documentation for
a module, it's much easier to do this for a small module than it is to
do for a very large one.
It's also much more difficult to make release tarballs for a large module
than it is for a few smaller ones.
--
Martin Baulig
martin gnome org (private)
baulig suse de (work)
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