Re: "proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary question)

["N. Richard Caldwell" <rdtzine toriamos org>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> gnome-objc is a totally optional add-on, it is not an official part of
> Gnome. In fact I haven't built it in months and I have a complete Gnome
> setup and do Gnome development. It is legitimate for C++ and Obj-C code to
> require egcs, because gcc 2.7 is broken for those languages. However, all
> core code is in C.

Then somebody needs to correct the official "building from tarballs" page at
http://www.gnome.org/start/gnometar.shtml because it's listed there under
"Required to run Gnome."