Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

From: Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>
To: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>
Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:59:00 +0100

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:54 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:16, Matthias Clasen
> > That may be, but 'disable this random set of widgets I don't need'
> > patches have very little chance of going upstream.
> 
> Why do they have little chance of going upstream?

The maintenance overhead is just not worth it and that's most likely the
reason. When projects get to the size of GTK+ you really notice this
overhead.

Also, ultimately maintainers have to spend time managing it so they get
the final say ;)

--
Regards, 
Martyn

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