main TODO file ?

[Jarosław Staniek]

Ralf Habacker said the following, On 2005-10-17 10:37:

> Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2005 09:30 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> 
>>Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 23:42 schrieb tnagyemail-ml at yahoo.fr:
>>
>>>>Personally I think it's really too early for that.
>>>
>>>Agreed, it is a bit early.
>>>
>>>Someone was talking about a libtool replacement on
>>>irc, does everybody feel such a thing is necessary by
>>>the way ?
>>
>>The main feature lacking from libtool is are the dependent libs. So far you
>>really need to fill in a lot of dependencies in the libs section. And it
>>doesn't really help too much if you have to define deps in bksys/ - that
>>is only taking informations elsewhere - where it does not belong.
>>
>>So I'm not talking about a full libtool replacement, but libtool like
>>functionality. And having the .la files around proved useful before, so I
>>guess we can use that format too.
>>
>>The problem is, that this isn't really easy getting together with the
>>platform independent linker stuff that is already in scons/bksys. And I
>>can't motivate myself at the moment to try harder as the weather is so nice
>>on weekends ;)
> 
> 
> I don't think that this a real problem, because la files belongs to a binary 
> object like shared or static libraries which are platform and compiler 
> related. The only requirement is a function which interpret the compiler 
> specific dependency lines and adds the result to the target dependencies. 
> 
> BTW: On Kde on cygwin I had more the problem, that the ltdl stuff results in a 
> noticable delay while loading libraries and I thought about something like a 
> cache for that. 

It seems like we've got the same problem for msvc (or also for mingw?) when 
using KDE modules.
eg. Kate Part is loaded slowly.

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