Re: [Planner Dev] Planner Win32 - Cygwin edition

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Jani Tiainen wrote:
> Jani Tiainen kirjoitti:
>
> > Well, finally got it working!

Nice! :)

The patch looks pretty nice, I was expecting more makefile hacks and 
#ifdefs to get things working.

I have a few comments/questions:

It would be nice if we could put the win32 egg-recent parts in a 
separate file just to make it easier to sync it (we copy and paste it 
from libegg when there are changes).

The added dependencies in the makefile, shouldn't libtool be able to 
figure that out itself? The dependency on the executable of course not, 
but maybe the dependency on the convenience libraries?

> Needs Cygwin, Cygwin/X and loads of patience.

This is the weak point I guess. It would be really great to get rid of 
the X dependency and use the win32 backend for GTK+ instead. I don't 
think we should commit this on HEAD since having to use an X server 
reduces the use pretty much in my opinion. We could put it in a branch 
to keep track of the patch and make it easier to work on it.

Do you have any idea if it's possible to do a mix and match here and use 
 cygwin for some parts but not have to use X?

I still think that long-term it's more worthwhile to continue working on 
abstracting the parts in Planner that depend on X or unix style 
environments and use the Windows equivalence instead on Windows (like 
the gconf abstraction Micke did for example).

/Richard

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