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

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

George <jirka 5z com> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:44:44PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Because if libgnome required gnome-config, everything would have to link
> against libcompat, that's why.
> 

What I am saying is that all libgnome and libgnomeui stuff should be
moved over to GConf. gnome-libs should not use gnome-config
internally, because unless the system-wide settings are und GConf, we
miss the point of GConf.

 - Maciej