Re: Adding gtkparasite to gtk?

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:

> Do you see this as something built by default?  Because then it would
> introduce a whole new build dependency cycle =(  Currently:
>
> https://github.com/chipx86/gtkparasite/blob/master/configure.ac
>
> It depends on pygtk, which depends on gtk+.   Also having GTK+ ship
> a module which depends on Python at runtime is kind of gross; for
> example RPM would auto-add a dependency on libpython to gtk2.rpm.
> Now it could be split into a subpackage, but then the obvious
> question becomes - why not just have a separate project?

I'm in favour of having the loadable module in gtk, but we clearly
don't want a python dependency.