Re: GTK+ Windows dependancies

[Ivan Baldo <ibaldo adinet com uy>]

 Hello.

El 31/01/08 06:37, Tor Lillqvist escribiÃ:
> >  In particular, the "loaders" directory is now gone due to Tor's
> >  decision to build a monolithic gdkpixbuf library for GTK on
> >  Windows, with all the loaders pre-embedded.  Personally, I wish
> >  he'd reconsider that.
> >     
>
> OK, you are the second person to oppose this change (if I recall
> correctly), so from the next build I will return to not including the
> loaders in the gdk-pixbuf DLL.
>
> Is there anybody who thinks that it was a good idea to include the
> loaders in the gdk-pixbuf DLL? I guess the main reason why I thought
> it was a good idea was because it meant one less configuration file
> (gdk-pixbuf.loaders) that could be missing or broken by misguided
> editing.
>
>   
The app I am currently doing requires all loaders so this change doesn't 
affect it specifically, but nonetheless I prefer the flexibility to 
delete some dlls and modify a config file to reduce an application size 
if it doesn't need all loaders over the complications that this method 
can cause.
So I prefer the config file and separated dlls instead of embedding them 
all in gdk-pixbuf dll.
Yep, I know that it will cause more emails on this mailing list... but 
there are so many silly emails already, that the contribution of emails 
that this can cause is relatively small :-), and the benefits for good 
programmers and users outweigh that in my opinion.
Thanks for asking Tor!!!
Bye.


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