Re: GTK+ modularization

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 14:28 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:59 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> > This has been discussed a bit at Guadec; and I have started looking
> >> into
> >> > what it would take to allow compiling GTK+ with certain subsets of
> >> > widgets.
> >> >
> >> > My current patch defines a small number of optional subsets:
> >> >
> >> > * broken: widgets covered by GTK_ENABLE_BROKEN
> >> > * deprecated: widgets covered by GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
> >>
> >> Does this also remove deprecated functions, signals, properties, etc.
> >> That
> >> might give an extra few %.
> >
> > It removes entire source files from the build. Thus no traces of the
> > removed types remain, no properties, no signals, no classes. You are
> > right that it would be valuable to also compare the runtime effect
> > of subsetting.
> 
> I meant, for instance, deprecated functions in non-deprecated files.

No, it doesn't touch those. It is really meant to be widget subsets.