Re: GNOME libraries 2.xx road map

[bob cs csoft net]

why not gnome-config for 1.x and gnome2-config for gnome 2.x?

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> Havoc said:
> 
> > Merging gnome-print into gnome-libs makes sense. However we need to keep
> > in mind that this will commit us to supporting the GnomeFont API; can we
> > finalize that API in the next couple months? How far along is it?
> 
> It is pretty usable for the momment.
> 
> I want to give it a pass or two of cleanup (name space fixes, some
> consistency issues here and there, and a small class reorganization
> for the print context and the print output).  But that must be it.
> 
> Now, Raph and Owen have larger plans for handling correctly
> high-quality typography in their Pango project, so we need to see how
> that evolves.
> 
> > An important point here is that the standalone version of these components 
> > should probably go away once gnome-libs 2.0 is released.
> 
> Good point, I am integrating these comment.
> 
> On the gnome-config issue, what is your suggestion?
> 
> gnome-config --compat, or gnome-config --version 1?
> 
> > It makes sense to put gnome-print, gnome-vfs, and gdk-pixbuf in
> > libgnome/libgnomeui, I think. 
> 
> The reason I want to avoid this is because it would be very hard to
> maintain those as external packages. 
> 
> > libglade and Bonobo are more questionable since circular
> > dependencies are easy to avoid and small simple apps (such as panel
> > applets) may not use them.
> 
> Good point. 
> 
> Miguel.
> 
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