In regard to: Re: Print plug-in, Michael J. Hammel said (at 9:55pm on Jan...: >GNOME-enabled is one thing. GNOME-dependent is another. Requiring GNOME >libs on non Linux platforms may not be appreciated. If GNOME dependency is >added, a determination on the difficulty on getting GNOME libs on non-Linux >platforms has to be made. Since I don't currently use GNOME (I don't >happen to need the added functionality that it currently offers) I don't >know much about how portable it's become. But GTK and Gimp, at least, run >on lots of platforms. Maybe that means GNOME is also fairly portable. I've dabbled with building a lot of the gnome components on half a dozen different Unix variants, all with the vendor compiler (for added fun :-) ). gnome-libs has become relatively portable. Every point release generally includes a couple trouble spots (new instances of C++ comments or other stuff that gcc passes that most other compilers object to), but for the most part it's quite good. The big problem is ORBit, which gnome-libs and hence all of gnome requires. There are a number of dodgy areas and portability problems with it. Getting it to build on a non-Linux system is possible, but not trivial. I would imagine the "casual compiler" would just give up as soon as they hit ORBit. >> I suppose we might conclude that vendors will ship only KDE, in which >> case maybe those wacky Qt people will show up again and threaten to >> code a replacement Kim*g*sh*p if we won't re-write Gimp in C++ :) > >The world doesn't live just on Linux. Gimp runs on other platforms. Amen. :-) Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J1, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
