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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: is new lib dependency possible for 3.5.2?
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2006-01-30 18:05:02
Message-ID: 200601301905.04361.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 22:48 schrieb Michael Pyne:
> "You depend on our library and we'll depend on 2 of yours."
>
> It was almost be a nice argument except that, for whatever reason those
> Kuh-raaaazay GNOME guys have decided that they want their base libs coded
> in C.  I'm sure you already know how difficult it can be to use C++ code
> with no C bindings from C.

No excuse. Those can be autogenerated.
>
> On the other hand, using C code from C++ is often merely annoying, and can
> sometimes even be just a slight chore with a few decent C++ wrappers of C
> classes.
>
> In other words, it is easier for us to depend on a C library than it is for
> them to depend on a C++ library.

From a compilers point of view, yes. But we pay the full price. If we really 
needed the lib, ok. But there's no functionality in glib not already covered 
by the libstdc++/QtCore combo.
>
> And besides, QtCore does so much just by itself that we'd really have to
> depend on about half of GNOME's libs to make it a tit-for-tat arrangement
> if they were to depend on QtCore.

That's an even stronger reason to not depend on any library whose 
functionality is already provided from "within".

mfg
	Leo

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