Re: Glade GUI: changing mechanism

[tomas tuxteam de]

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:07:13PM +0200, Olexiy Avramchenko wrote:
> On 10/31/06, Carlo Agrusti <carlo-ag libero it> wrote:
> > I'll miss it too [...]

> This was discussed some time ago. The size of XML (and load time) is
> not actually a problem here, because .glade file can be transparently
> compressed [...]

> factors for embedded are:
> 1. Memory consumption. It takes more memory to use libglade/XML.
> 2. Additional dependencies. You have to keep xml library and libglade
> around. (however there was an effort to use for GLibs internal parser
> with libglade, if I'm not mistaken).

And this:

 | tomas herr-turtur:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.24 /lib/libc-2.3.6.so
 | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1137372 2006-05-21 20:46 /lib/libc-2.3.6.so
 | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1103284 2006-05-03 10:40 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.24

(from a fairly standard Ubuntu). Trying to squeeze a few bytes by
using uClibc instead of libc seems like an exercise in futility.

And Daniel Veillard surely did a good job with libxml2. It's just that
the XML spec is so brai^H^H^H^H complex (yes, libxml2 needs an FTP and
an HTTP client inside just to be compliant :-(

I'm probably too old for this XML hype everywhere. Grumpy old man, goes
back into cave.

(Note that as a document description language, I'd consider XML to be
somewhat decent -- but even then, it won't be my favourite. But I
disgress).

Regards
- -- tomÃs
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