is new lib dependency possible for 3.5.2?

Nicolas Goutte nicolasg at snafu.de
Sun Jan 29 16:42:23 GMT 2006


On Friday 27 January 2006 23:53, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Friday 27 January 2006 13:16, Fredrik Höglund wrote:
> > On Friday 27 January 2006 18:05, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 14:49 schrieb Andriy Rysin:
> > > > libxklavier is used in GNOME
> > >
> > > Does it depend on glib?
> >
> > The libxklavier developers have announced [1] that they will "most
> > probably" be introducing a glib dependency in the near future,
> > citing the fact that GNOME is the only desktop using it as one of
> > the reasons.
>
> Would this really be a disaster?  I mean, if it *has* to be programmed in
> C, relying on glib wouldn't be a bad idea.  I suppose even I would complain
> if it brought the full force of g* to bear (glib, gobject, gnome-vfs, etc)
> but the fact of the matter is that it is inviting a lot of unnecessary bugs
> to spurn glib when writing C-based applications.
>
> Or alternatively, what are the other options for a decent C support
> library? The is APR (Apache Portable Runtime), which Subversion and Apache
> 2.0 users are at least guaranteed to have.  But does it implement lists and
> other such stuff or just try to make a neutral API for OS interfaces?

APR is not good from a license point of view, as Qt has to be considered as 
GPL.

See:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne

Have a nice day!





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