Re: Eel merged into Nautilus 2.25.3

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 12/15/08, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:05 +0100 schrieb Frederic Peters:
>
> > Alexander Larsson wrote:
>  >
>  > > I just released Nautilus 2.25.3 which contains an internalized copy of
>  > > eel, and I don't plan to do any more eel releases. This lets the
>  > > compiler do better optimizations and means one less library to link
>  > > against.
>  > >
>  > > Eel was always unsupported and shouldn't be used outside nautilus.
>  > > However, some applications still does this. These apps will work against
>  > > the last eel release, but should really work towards removing this
>  > > dependency.
>  >
>  > I updated jhbuild moduleset; I looked at other modules declaring a
>  > dependency on eel and gnome-mount dropped it already[1] while the
>  > other one is orca and a bit strange, as it is written in Python.
>  > (Willie, could you comment on this?)
>
>
> I'm still wondering about the "best" way to find dependencies.

I usually check distro's packages Depends:, ldd the binary and read
the configure.ac|in for pkg-config lines. Of course that's not 100%
accurate, the "right way" would be to grep for include <blah/blah.h>.
That's my uneducated guess.