Re: Even NEWER init code (fwd)

[Bruno Pires Marinho <bapm camoes rnl ist utl pt>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Peter Williams wrote:

> I've started writing newer init code for Balsa, using most of the stuff from
> the druid, but better design and using the GTK object system correctly.
> 
> I used GOB (in GNOME cvs) to make the objects, because it's a whole lot faster
> than doing all the GTK object system stuff. However, if you don't have GOB,
> you won't be able to edit the new code. You will be able to build it, because
> I've included the .c and .h files it generates.
> 
> There is a new configure option, --with-experimental-init, which controls this
> feature. If you don't specify it or make it =none, then the code won't be built
> at all. If you use =c, then it will use the C code to build it. If you use =gob,
> then it will check for GOB and use it to generate the source.
> 
> The new code is in another static library, libinit_balsa. libmutt, libbalsa,
> and libinit_balsa are linked into the executable, not installed. As I mentioned
> before, a larger executable should not be a problem because of the way Linux and
> most other operating systems (I think) load executables.

Since this code is runned once for the first time installing balsa we
could have a separate program to do this installation or if it is too ugly
we can use g_module to load the code when it is needed (like other
software that uses plugins).

                                               Bruno Pires Marinho
                                      http://camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~bapm/