From: Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> Date: 14 Mar 2004 02:50:09 +0100 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. That's what I meant; that would be a possibility. We would just need to make sure it didn't collide with anything else. I prefer to minimize the amount of stuff we install in the background, but that could conceivably be an option. Whether it's worthwhile is a second question. > 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. It's a long time for developers who are used to living on the bleeding edge. It's not a long time for end users who don't want to upgrade something that works. Like I said, note that even Microsoft was forced to backtrack when they tried to force people off Windows 98. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
