Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

[Laurent Wan <dev wan free fr>]

Le 16/08/2010 15:56, Stefan Kost a écrit :
> On 15.06.2010 02:16, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>    
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Alberto Ruiz<aruiz gnome org>  wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > 2010/6/14 Sam Thursfield<ssssam gmail com>:
> > >
> > >        
> > > > A more socially-minded approach would be to work on the problem of
> > > > sharing a GTK+ runtime between all apps on a system. It's perhaps not
> > > > an easy problem, due different requirements in versions and specific
> > > > libraries, but it's a more long-term solution to the problem of GTK+'s
> > > > big runtime than for each app using GTK+ on Windows to build and
> > > > distribute their own incompatible versions.
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > That is just not how you ship stuff on Windows unfortunately, there is
> > > no apt/zypper/yum like thing for Windows (though MS seems to be
> > > working on that apparently).
> > >
> > > tml and myself went through this problem again and again, even if
> > > GTK+'s API is stable, guaranteeing GTK+'s ABI on Windows is just
> > > impossible for several reasons, a common GTK+ runtime is just not the
> > > way to go. Easing the bundling process of Gtk+ into a windows
> > > app/installer, and reducing the amount of dependencies is the way to
> > > go.
> > >
> > >        
> > That may be, but 'disable this random set of widgets I don't need'
> > patches have very little chance of going upstream.
> >
> >      
> I wonder how many dependencies are in between the widgets. If not many
> one could make gtk plugin based. Like having a gtkcore with the
> baseclasses, paint engine and event system only. All widgets are
> provided by plugins. That is a plugin can provide several widgets. And
> thus you can have e.g. gtkcorewidgets.so, gtkcoredialogs.so, ... .
> GStreamer has some of the plugin infrastructure to borrow :) But maybe
> its total overkill ...
>
> Stefan
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Hi,

I wonder too about dependencies.
What about trying to compile filechooser files into a dedicated 
subdirectory as an experiment ?

Laurent