Re: glib and pango 2.10 in GNOME 2.14?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> The implementation of the major new api in GLib, the slice allocator,
> just landed in cvs. So I don't expect big problems with freezing the 
> GLib API before the year ends.

I'd like to have at least a "relocation" API in place.  This is so that
applications can be installed anywhere in the file system, or moved
anywhere once installed --- and they should keep working.  It's one of
the steps we need to make Gnome friendly to ISVs.

Currently we have gnome_program_init() and gnome_program_locate_file(),
but almost no apps or libraries use the latter consistently.

I'm told that KDE has a pretty nice API for this.

This would imply that we audit the core platform libraries and the core
desktop programs to use this new API.  I think it would be very
beneficial to have this at the Glib level.

  Federico