Confusion about use of G2

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:03:21PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2005 8:17 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > > I agree none of the QOF stuff is related to the GUI port to Gtk2 but it
> > > is all related to the underlying port to glib-2.
> > >
> > > The original desire for a G2 port, in my understanding, was to port
> > > gnucash to the gnome2 libraries, not just port the GUI to Gtk2.
> >
> > That's my understanding as well.  So, what functionality in glib1 is
> > missing from glib2 that requires the QOF pullout?
> 
> Principally the backend load method. 

huh? in glib1?

> QSF also requires a recent libxml2 that 
> the 1.8 tree could not support which is why it was committed to G2 in the 
> first place.

Well, QSF requiring G2 doesn't mean the first G2 release requires QSF.

> 
> > Is this a tree-sync 
> > issue? i.e.: external QOF has moved forward to version w/o glib1,
> > therefore the easiest way to remove glib1 dep from gc is to upgrade
> > internal qof to new version, which requires massive factoring?
> 
> All that work has already been done and copied into gnc. It is also in QOF and 
> I merely wish to not duplicate such large amounts of code.
> 
> G2 will work on glib-2 on those platforms that don't package QOF - I just want 
> to make sure it's possible to use QOF on those platforms that DO provide it.

Wait a sec.  You mean GC G2 release has to work both ways!?  with
external QOF on Debian and with internal QOF on other dist?  If so,
then working with external QOF certainly shouldn't hold up G2.

-chris
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