Re: My vision of gnome-libs (was Re: GNOME 2.0 meeting summary)

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

George <jirka 5z com> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:04:35AM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > > Plust there are a LOT of apps that use it.  it's use for new things should be
> > > discouraged, but we can't remove it.
> > 
> > Sounds to me like the public entry points should go in libcompat.
> 
> That would be on crack.  libcompat is not linked into normal programs unles
> they request it.  So it must be in stable lib.  What could be done is to make
> the public header only available when a define is set, and it would be
> available inside libgnome and libgnomeui
> 

Why is requiring a special define better than requiring linking
against libcompat? They sound pretty close to me. In fact, we could
set up pkgconfig to have a --enable-compat option which links against
the compat library and sets the compat define.

 - Maciej