On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:19:23PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > Why should a *GTK+* installer include gtkglext, libglade and libxml2? Spotted the `Glade' in `GladeWin32'? > Those are not part of GTK+. OK, so maybe some specific apps uses them > in addition to, or on top of, GTK+. But then it's wrong to call it a > GTK+ installer, it is more an installer for the inclusive set of > dependencies of *that* application. > > As a rhetoric question, why then just these additional libs? Because I want these (eh, I'm answering a rhetorical question...). > Some > other app might also need whatever other libraries from the GNOME > stack, like libart_lgpl, libIDL, ORBit2, gtkhtml, whatever. Whereas I don't care about these. Now, originally I wrote two paragraphs here why the libs from the second set are less likely to be used (hint: not all Gtk+ apps target GNOME). However, why is irrelevant, if enough people answer your question the same way as I did, nothing else matters. Yeti -- http://gwyddion.net/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
