From kde-core-devel Fri Mar 07 17:46:22 2003 From: Guillaume Laurent Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:46:22 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: glib dependancy in KDE3.x X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104705932431951 On Friday 07 March 2003 18:25, Matthias Kretz wrote: > > You can't be serious here. "irrational policy of using only C++" ?? > > Hey, he said "irrational policy of using only C++ applications". There's a > big difference here. I meant my quote as a sum up of "using only C++ code" actually. > Because that is irrational... (well at least IMHO) No, it's not. If KDE is so much ahead in terms of integration, it's because it's C++ all throughout. That is not a necessary condition, but it helps tremendously. > The question was if it's ok to depend on glib instead of copying glib into > arts sources. > And so far I have not seen a single good argument for keeping the situation > like it is now - except for those who think that this dependency will mean > more work for them (I don't really count that as a "good" argument though > :). I don't really care. Ressources-wise, glib is a rounding error on most current machines. Avoiding to duplicate it is certainly a good thing. However, using it because "some things must be implemented in C", is not a good reason. I've been told that arts is in C so that Gnome can use it. It then makes sense to use glib. If it's in C for any other reason, then it should be moved to C++/Qt. -- Guillaume http://www.telegraph-road.org