Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>]

* Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> schrieb:

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> > >   Maybe just moving deprecated widgets to a separate library, like
> > > libgtk2.0-compat.la, would be a better solution?  We'd get well
> > > maintained applications to avoid linking to this library, while at the
> > > same time keeping it around for those apps that just need it and whose
> > > authors are stuburn enough to not want to update.
> > So let those apps depend on GTK+-2.x, like many depend on 1.2 now. 
> > Moving widgets to separate library will require some changes in related 
> > apps anyway.
> 
> This gets proposed repeatedly, Unfortunately, it does not offer
> significant benefits that would justify the costs of doing this. 
> Splitting GTK+ into multiple shared libraries increases the cost of
> symbol resolution. It does not reduce the memory consumption

You're right, as long as we're talking about splitting such silly 
borders as proposed. 

We instead should move larger/more complex widgets and dialogs to 
their own library, or better to their own package.
For example I dont see any reason for having something like a printer
dialog layout around on my system if no one really uses it.

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> significantly, since all the deprecated functions are unlikely to be
> paged in anyway. It does complicate the build considerably. 

Build would become much simplier if we had a bunch of smaller libs, 
divided on clear and useful borders.
Well, it could even easier if we had an simple and deterministic 
buildsystem, but that's another story ...


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