Re: pkg-config and glib

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang contre com> writes:

> >>>>> In article <y5wofvx7432 fsf icon labs redhat com>, Havoc
> >>>>> Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
>     Havoc> rejected because we would like other projects such as e.g.
>     Havoc> FreeType or libxml or even KDE to use pkg-config.
> 
> Ok. I understand. But wouldn't it be cleaner to make it totally
> glib-independent ?

Is rewriting a bunch of code that could just be used cleaner?

It _is_ glib independent, it just happens to have a bunch of
code in it that looks a lot like GLib.

(The source tarball could be made smaller by stripping out
the unused parts of GLib, but that's quite a bit of work
for not much change.)

> I have debianized it and sent my patch to Martijn van Beers
> <martijn earthling net> which was listed in AUTHORS as the maintainer.
> Was it the correct person ? Knowing how obsolete certain GNOME related
> informations are... ;-)

It might be good to send it to Havoc as well. He's had more time
than Martijn to work on pkg-config recently. 

                                        Owen