Hi, Robert L Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Fink and Darwinports are simply not options for mainline OS X users. > Mac users want to literally buy a machine and turn it on. Think about > what happens when you buy a lamp, you plug it into the wall and turn > it on. They're amazingly close to that, with things like Airport. > >From a user engineering standpoint, it's a tour de force. Afak, you can build binary images from darwinport packages with a single command. If you provide such an image file to your users, it's a matter or dragging the file onto the finder and the software is installed, ready to be used. But certainly you know about this and I assume that this is the way you are offering the gimp-print software to MacOS X users. It would be easy to include glib2 as part of this gimp-print image file. > I think we have a problem when something goes from current to obsolete > in 18 months. That's a rather long time and since you are developing a new version of gimp-print at the moment, you should seriously consider to base it on libraries that are current and not something that dates back to the year 2001. A lot has happened since then. I don't have glib-1.2 installed any longer on any of the computers I am using. You can expect that this will be the case for most if not all distributions emerging over the next months. Sven
