Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+
- From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>
- To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:34:53 +0200
* Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> schrieb:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:54 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:16, Matthias Clasen
> > > That may be, but 'disable this random set of widgets I don't need'
> > > patches have very little chance of going upstream.
> >
> > Why do they have little chance of going upstream?
>
> The maintenance overhead is just not worth it and that's most likely the
> reason. When projects get to the size of GTK+ you really notice this
> overhead.
The big question to me is, why has it grown to this size in the
first place ? Why can't those things simply be in their own libs,
ontop of gtk ?
cu
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