Re: Number of dynamically linked libraries (Was: Re: Gtk+4.0)

[Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>]

On 23/06/16 11:22, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > If there is a compelling advantage to splitting up libraries, of course,
> > by all means do so.
>
> I have an example: gspell:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell

To be clear, I'm not arguing that things like gspell shouldn't be a
separate library; I think GNOME's current level of modularity is about
right. However, there is such a thing as too much modularity: it isn't
quite as simple as "splitting libraries is always good".

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Simon McVittie
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