Re: Glib resource framework

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 15:07 -0800, Hub Figuière wrote:
> On 21/12/11 02:47 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I think this could be very useful in many places, for instance to ship built-in 
> > css files, gtk builder files, win32 theme images etc in a way that still makes libraries 
> > relocatable (and avoids potential for runtime errors due to not found files).
> 
> Maybe we could actually support "bundles" like it is done on MacOS.
> The idea of compiling data into a binary file give me a blast from the
> past from the MacOS 9 days.

See:
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/09/30/rethinking-the-linux-distibution/