glib dependancy in KDE3.x

Alexander Kellett lypanov at kde.org
Fri Mar 7 16:30:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:06:24AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday March 07, 2003 06:58, Owen Taylor wrote:
> >  And of course, GLib is pretty widely used, so it's not
> >  unlikely the user will already have it.
> 
> That doesn't mitigate that it's a new dependency, and...

True.

[snip]
> aRts would be the first to use glib, and the use of aRts by knotify and 
> konqueror would assure that every KDE user was having to load glib on KDE 
> startup.

I'm quite confused. I had hoped that the public api 
to the arts sounds server would not be linking to the 
glib library and that it would be used internally only?

mvg,
Alex




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