Re: Spell checking in GIO

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 10/08/2013 12:36 AM, A. Walton wrote:
> My only question is why GIO and not GDK? This kind of per-platform API
> would happily reside in GDK and prevent us from adding even more
> extension points to GIO. There's really nothing I/Oish about this API
> (despite GIO already being the home for lost GObjects since there's no
> GDesktop library between Glib and GTK+)

It's been suggested that GIO "really" stands for "GLib's Interesting
Objects" or something like that. Anyway, there is no expectation at this
point that things added to it are especially I/O-related. libglib is for
generically-useful stuff that doesn't depend on GObject, libgobject is
basically reserved for the object system itself and stuff very closely
tied to it (eg, GBinding), and libgio is for generically-useful stuff
that does depend on GObject.

On 10/07/2013 04:38 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> How to handle the dependency to enchant in GIO? Is a hard dependency a 
> problem?

enchant depends on glib, so yes, a hard dependency on it from glib would
be a problem. But enchant development has more or less stopped (last
commit was two years ago), and if glib had equivalent functionality then
enchant would be pretty much unnecessary. So it might make more sense to
just absorb it into glib (which Dom seemed in favor of in that bug anyway).

-- Dan