Re: Ann: GtkCanvas 0.1

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 04:24:57 +0930 (CST), Stephen White said:

> On Sun, 23 Jul 100, Andy Tai wrote:
>  
>  > (I have sinned. GNOME developers, please pardon me)
>  > 
>  > This is to announce GtkCanvas 0.1, a backport of the GnomeCanvas widget to 
>  > gtk+.  It can be downloaded from
>  
>  Would it have avoided a fork if the Gnome widgets were available in smaller
>  packages, perhaps with a --standalone compile option?

if there was a --no-gnome-deps option.

>  
>  The way I see this is that forked libraries mean that Gnome people have to
>  download more code to get non-Gnome code working on their systems.

Nope, GNOME depends on Gtk+ so they wont have to download more code or nothing.

>  The opposite is also true... non-Gnome people have to download more code
>  to get Gnome code working on their systems.

Now that's true.

>  I'm guessing this is the reason behind the constant forking of Gnome
>  components. If this issue can be settled by repackaging, that would
>  seem to be a valid technical solution to a political problem.

Imho, GNOME components should always compile with Gtk+ options only like it has
been said many times, if a developer chooses to uitlize extra components of
gnome then he/or she is free to do so..

Maher

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