Re: lib* in status pages

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mĺn 2003-05-19 klockan 21.40 skrev Ole Laursen:
> Since 2.2 appears to be dying now, I'm in the process of switching my
> translation efforts towards 2.4.

Sounds like a wise idea.


> libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui,
> libgtop and libwnck are in the desktop group. Shouldn't they be in the
> developer-libs group instead

Not necessarily. There are and have been many libs in the desktop
release that are just the dependencies of a few other applications in
the desktop release (libgtop->procman, libwnck->metacity etc) but are
not API or ABI stable and hence do not belong in the platform release,
i.e. they don't belong in the list of stable libraries that third
parties are supposed to use to build their own applications.

I'm not sure if this applies to all of these though. Remember that the
2.4 module list isn't finalized yet and changes are bound to happen. If
you want to follow the discussions in the area, please subscribe to the
desktop-devel list.


> (which perhaps just should be called "libs")?

Perhaps Carlos can answer that one.


Christian