Confusion about use of G2

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:09:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 October 2005 7:42 pm, Josh Sled wrote:
>> > I don't believe that it relates to 
>> > the G2 port at all.
>> 
>> 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?  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?

AFAIK there is no glib-1 dep in gnucash at the moment in the g2
branch.  The only place that glib-1 gets pulled in is via g-wrap
1.3.4.   But moving to g-wrap-1.9 will fix that issue..

You can compile g2 branch without glib-1 today..

-derek
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