Re: Proposal: an addition to glib for getting the absolute path of the current binary.

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>]

* Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> [2004-04-13 11:52:13 +0200]:

<snip>
> already. Since it's our goal to remove all platform specific code from
> GIMP, I would welcome to see this being abstracted into glib. A
> prerequisite is of course that a simple and clean API can be found and
> that there's a chance to implement it in a sane manner.

You're right, gimp should not contain any platform depenendent stuff.

But please do not put this stuff into the main glib, instead into 
another library, maybe called glib-procinf (since it in fact fetches 
information from the running process). 

I'd really welcome such an library, which also handles relocating, 
maybe also generic config management. But this should be a separate
package.


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