On Sat 05 Apr 2008 at 07:07:36 -0400, Keith Richie wrote: > I can see how fixing the code to compile on maintained distros should > be the way to do it.
In fact personally I don't care about "maintained distros" at all, since they are all Linux, and I don't run Linux. In my opinion, all projects should just be completely independent of "distros" since this only creates Balkanisation and that is A Bad Thing(tm). Of course the incompatibility introduced by glib is unforgivable. For me that would be reason to get rid of the whole stupid library, if at all possible. I've seen the suggestion here that it is only used for g_assert() in the first place. If that is true, why not replace it with calls to the standard C library assert() and be done with it. If this is not an option, the idea of a compatibility header seems the best to me. It would include whatever glib header is appropriate for the currently installed version. I suppose it will need some help from the configure script to detect which headers are actually present (feature checks are always better than version checks). -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- You author it, and I'll reader it. \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- Cetero censeo "authored" delendum esse. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
