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Subject: Re: checking for GTK and glib in configure.in.in ?
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: 2003-08-02 18:40:06
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Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Friday 01 August 2003 22:59, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
>>>The "you suck" comments tend to have a lot higher reaction time
>>>then the endless "please, please, oh, please don't assume that KDE
>>>developers have Gnome libraries installed".
>>
>>I think that is reasonable to assume that many users have the
>>libraries that are needed to use The GIMP.
>
>
> No, it's not. GIMP doesn't require developmental packages of neither
> Glib or GTK+.
>
It is hard to build The GIMP from source without them.
>
>>Remember, GTK doesn't stand for GNOME Tool Kit.
>
>
> Are you going somewhere with this?
Yes, where I'm going is that your anti-GNOME hostility shouldn't be
directed towards GTK.
> It doesn't matter what it stands for,
> what does matter is that we've chosen a different toolkit as our
> default GUI toolkit and a hard dependency on another is simply
> unacceptable.
Well so much for KDE SVG??
> By a "hard dependency" I mean one that doesn't let you
> compile the rest of the module in which the app using another toolkit
> is located.
You do know that KDE is dependent on GNOME XML tools, don't you?
I guess my point is: MELLOW OUT!!
--
JRT
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