Re: more gnome 2 proposal

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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.

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Martin Baulig
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