Re: [gnome-love] Getting rid of popt

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

Ok, thanks for you reply, Emmanuele for the explanation.
Now I have a good amount of work for next release:

This is the list of modules that were using popt when I looked at it a 
month ago:

at-spi
dasher
desktop-file-utils
eel
eog
gconf
gnome-mag
gnome-utils
gnome-vfs
gnopernicus
gob
libbonobo
libgnome
libgnomeprint
libgnomeui
libgtop
librsvg
nautilus
ORBit2
yelp

Let's spread some love :-D

Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> Hi Luis,
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:21 +0100, Luis Menina wrote:
>
>
> > So excuse my naive question is: Why is there this dependency to popt ? 
> > Is this an implicit dependency from another module ?
>
>
> Yep:
>
> :~/cvs/cvs.gnome.org/glib/glib$ pkg-config --libs libgnome-2.0
> -pthread -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2
> -lgobject-2.0 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl
> -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>
> As you can see, libgnome depends on popt, as it still offers the ability
> to hook up popt into the GnomeProgram object (for backward compatibility
> reasons).
>
> Libgnome, as well as libgnomeui and others, will be deprecated in the
> long road to Gnome 3.0, so we have to keep the dependency on popt for
> the time being; anyway, GOption is really the way to go - as it has more
> features, it's integrated with the GLib/GTK libraries and it's actually
> easier to use.
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.