Build failure: Ubuntu 6.06 CVS

[Derek Atkins]

David Hampton <hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:18 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> You've got the debian-broken libtool. I bet you're not pulling
>> in libcore-utils.
>> 
>> I'll also point out that this is a bug that "core-utils" now depends
>> on gtk.  That shouldn't have happened.  This code should go into
>> gnome-utils.
>
> I disagree.  I created the core-utils directory as a place to put code
> that augments the core gxxx libraries (glib, gconf, etc. including gtk),
> but doesn't have anything to do with GnuCash proper.  The gnc_cbe_xxx
> functions have nothing to do with GnuCash, and everything to do with
> requiring a GtkComboBox to always match an entry in the completion.  At
> some point I'd like to try and push them into the gtk itself.
>
> I would have accepted your argument that this code should be in a
> gtk/gnome specific directory if gnucash was still trying to be UI
> neutral, but that requirement fell by the wayside before I joined the
> development group.  As far as I'm concerned, gtk is part of the core
> library set that gnucash is built on.

The build system (and directory structure) is divided into two
parts:  UI-independent and UI-dependent code.  Everything early on
(core-utils, gnc-module, engine) is completely UI independent.
Yes, it uses glib, but it doesn't use gtk, Qt, Motif, or anything
like that.

I still believe that we're trying to be UI Neutral.  Think
"command-line application" (e.g. cashutil).  Right now cashutil
doesn't need to link against gtk, and I don't think it should.  Making
"engine" depend on gtk would force apps like cashutil to link against
gtk when they have no intension of even HAVING a Graphical User
Interface.

Or.. posit a web-based application that some people have been
discussing.  Why require GTK for something that's just going to emit
HTML?

For what it's worth, I still believe in UI neutrality of the core
libraries.

-derek

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