is new lib dependency possible for 3.5.2?

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Sat Jan 28 10:01:04 GMT 2006


On Saturday, 28. January 2006 04:17, Andriy Rysin wrote:
>
> I've talked today with libxklavier author and he's open to suggestions,
> the obvious reason for him to get glib is to get some utility staff
> (e.g. hashtables). If anybody can suggest other suitable library or
> solution he's willing to consider it.
> It also would be nice to hear arguments against (indirect) dependency on
> glib, especially taking to account that arts already depends on that and
> nobody complained for years.
Well, libxklavier on my system is 80k, libglib is 540k. That's pretty heavy 
for a hash table implementation. So unless he expects a lot of maintaince 
from that hash table implementation, I would rather copy it to the lib. But 
of course it's his choice I guess.

Greetings, Stephan




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