glib or not glib?
Andrew Borodin
aborodin at vmail.ru
Wed Jan 7 15:24:33 UTC 2009
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:11:56 +0100 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Andrew Borodin schrieb:
> > > First tiny step to get rid if glib.
> >
> > It's very strange. Do you think than mc must be free of glib?
>
> Yes, because glib is a fat blob we don't really need (the few
> things we currently use can be easily done w/ a bunch of
> macros or inline's).
Other developers are disagree with you. glib provides many useful
functions and data structures and allows us do not reinvent the wheel.
And glib is portable library.
> Isn't it rather absurd to maintain an stripped-down branch of
> slang for embedded systems, but at the same time import glib ? ;-O
mc for embedded systems can be linked statically.
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Regards,
Andrew.
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