Re: suggestions for Guile wrt GTK and Gnome support

[Ariel Rios <ariel at linuxppc dot org>]

On 23 Jul 2001 10:40:34 -0700, Seth Alves wrote:
 
> I would be very very surprised if gtk ever began to depend on gnome.
Yes indeed. That will never happen =)
 
> There is a module called gnome-guile in the gnome/gtk cvs tree.  It
> contains the guile-gtk code, and other code that wraps the more stable
> parts of gnome.  To build this from cvs, you DO need bits of the gnome
> build environment, but these dependencies are simply a convenience for
> the maintainer.  Perhaps we could try to convince Ariel to break or
> reduce these dependencies?  

A solution might be to fork guile-gtk in stable (1.2) and unstbale (2.0)
Strable branch should include the old autoconf stuff and the unstable
branch might use pkg-config...

>=) These dependencies only exist if you
> are building gnome-guile from cvs.  If you are building with a tar.gz
> style release, you don't need any of gnome.  I like gnome-guile.  It
> needs some polishing in places, but overall it's very effective.
What kind of polishing?


ariel