Re: libglade frustration

[Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com>]

David NeÄas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:03:29PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
> > In any event, if a user wants to develop with
> > libglade, he'd need to install the rpms or debs or whatever.  Most users
> > aren't going to be using the raw tarballs.
>
>
> Install it and use it are two very different things.
>
> Sure, one installs the library from rpms, debs, ports, ...
> But programming with a library without looking at its source
> code?  If one is legally permitted to, who would throw away
> such a source of examples (whether they are dedicated
> examples or not), a style guide, ..., and above all the
> ultimate reference?
>
> So I would expect most people to get the source code
> anyway...(cont)

I may not be typical, but in my use of glib etc thusfar for netperf I've 
not had any desire to install source unless I was compileing somewhere 
were I didnt' already have a binary/library.  I'm not really interested 
in how library call foo is implemented, I just want to know how to call 
it do get my work done.

rick jones