Could kdecore depend on kjs?

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Wed Mar 14 14:15:56 GMT 2007


Am Mittwoch 14 März 2007 schrieb Chusslove Illich:
> > [: Leo Savernik :]
> > This will penalise all users not depending on kjs-l10n-functionality.
> > Can't it be made an optional runtime dependency?
>
> By "penalise" you mean a build-time dependency? Because there won't be any
> performance penals.
>
I'm afraid you're wrong. Every library more in the dependency chain means more 
string compares for resolving the symbols.

I wonder too if you can't make this some kind of fixed plugin. If it's there, 
dlopen it and hook the function "kjs_translate".

Greetings, Stephan




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