Re: Glib resource framework

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>]

* Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> schrieb:

> > But: if the application bundle should be entirely self-contained,
> > why using dynamic linking (of non-system-libaries) at all ?
> 
> the GTK stack in particular cannot be statically linked (certainly not
> without considerable effort).

Why not, exactly ?

> > Actually, I'm entirely not convinces of the concept of self-
> > contained applications at all. Sooner or later they will have to
> > integrate/communicate with some other application (eg. beginning
> > with tiny things like adding some menu entry or icon), and this
> > will require some top-down coordination. And that's exactly the
> > point where distributions come in.
> 
> no, this is where defined APIs like the ones from freedesktop come in.

You're assuming, any interaction between applications allowed is
what's specified in that APIs.


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