GNOME 2 port patches [10]

[Derek Atkins]

It currently lives under gnome-utils/egg

-derek

linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:53:11AM +0200, Jan Arne Petersen was heard to remark:
> > On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:25:57 -0500, linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas)
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Linas, 
> > 
> > > > > here is a really big patch:
> > > > > 
> > > > > * Add some libegg files.
> > > 
> > > Uhh, I thought libegg was all the stuff in gnome that is explicitly
> > > unstable,  and is gaurenteed to change before it becomes a part of
> > > official gnome.  Or that is my understanding.  Are we adding a
> > > dependency on libegg? Or are we merely copying code from there? 
> > 
> > We are only copying code from there.
> > 
> > The problem is, that there is no better code avaiable if you want to do
> > advanced menu stuff (like merging unmerging menus).
> 
> OK.
> 
> > I don't believe that the code is 'really' unstable because it is already
> > used in some other applications (like epiphany) and i never noticed any
> > problems with this applications (related to that code). Maybe it isn't
> 
> By 'unstable' I didn;t mean 'crashes', I really meant 'will change
> in the future'.  Since people already complain about how hard it is to
> build gnucash ... 
> 
> > 'really' stable but it is at last more stable than any code which we could
> > create to do the same tasks if we don't want to use libegg.
> 
> OK, copying in is OK.   FWIW, the policy that we used to have was that
> we would copy stuff to the /lib directory, instead of /src, so if you
> wanted to, you could put *all* of libegg into /lib.
> 
> I don't know where you put that code, but if you didn't put it in /lib,
> then please think about moving it there.
> 
> --linas
> 
> 
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