Re: libglade frustration

[tomas tuxteam de]

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:15:13AM +0100, David NeÄas (Yeti) wrote:
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> Definitely, but I'd put only snippets and smaller examples
> to the manual itself.  I hope we agree it makes no sense to
> put the source of gtk-demo-like programs to the manual.

I heartily agree

>                                                          So
> we have the following possibilities:
>
> 1. Convince all OS vendors to stop making binary packages
>    and libglade devs to make these packages instead, with
>    examples included.
>
> 2. Convince all OS vendors to include code samples in the
>    devel/devel-doc package.
>
> 3. Add a note to a prominent place in the docs that the
>    source code comes with examples, and let people grab the
>    real thing instead of what OS vendors decide to
>    distribute.

I'd go with 2 or 3 -- personally I like 2 best (say have an examples
subdir of the doc dir which packagers are expected to include in the
- -dev or in the -dev-docs package). Nowadays there are just many reasons
to stick to the distribution-provided packages, at least for
less-seasoned people.

Regards
- -- tomÃs
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