Re: [gtk-list] Re: Pure Gtk vs Gnome

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 03:50:37PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> One big reason -- it's much easier to distribute glib.so, gtk.so,
> xpm.so, and your program, rather than all the other libs as well.  Plus,
> static linking with just glib/gtk+ doesn't hurt so much.

I think using gnome libs should theoretically produce more portable binaries
since much more stuff is abstracted out ... and a lot of portability probs are
solved with gnome ... also gnome libs will get way more testing then your own
routines ... so I'd say that using gnome-libs is not just convenience ..

though if your app is very simple ... it might be just ok to use pure gtk ...

George