Re: [Gimp-developer] New GIMP configure warning/error

[Kristian Rietveld <kris loopnest org>]

> On 13 May 2017, at 14:52, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
> > You realize that for platforms other than Linux, that if you wish to install
> > glib-networking, you have to install
>
> Yes I realize that dependencies have often dependencies themselves.
> Unless there is something which proves to be impossible to compile on
> other platforms, I don't see the problem.

A possible problem is that all of these extra dependencies have to be shipped in macOS and Windows packages. 
If in any of these dependencies serious bugs (e.g. security) are found, we need to ship updated packages. A 
problem like this does not exist on Linux since you would typically simply update the distribution packages 
(although not sure how that will work for Flatpak).

A potential solution could be to write a Mac-specific GIO TLS backend that depends on macOS system libraries 
which can be shipped instead of the default TLS backend that depends on gnutls.


regards,

-kris.