Dropping libgnome

Christian Stimming christian at cstimming.de
Mon Sep 10 16:59:35 EDT 2012


Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 22:17:49 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> One of the things I wanted to get done before 2.6 was dropping our
> dependency on libgnome. For the reasons why, see [1] and  [2].
> 
> With my last series of commits, I managed to drop our dependency on
> libgnome, libgnomeui and their dependencies. The only real gnome
> dependency remaining is libgnomecanvas. But according to the information
> in [2] there currently doesn't seem to be an official alternative for it
> yet. So that should be ok.
> 
> I adapted the windows build scripts to no longer install and ship the
> dropped libraries. The Windows installer got 4Mb smaller as a result :)
> 
> It may be interesting for the other platform builders to do a similar
> cleanup (GnuCash/OSX-Quarz, Macports,...)
> 
> These are the libraries I dropped from the Windows build:
> - gnome-vfs
> - libbonobo
> - libbonoboui
> - libgnome
> - libgnomeui
> - popt
> 
> You can check if your build scripts still depend on these. The should be
> safely removable since r22381.

Very good! Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Christian


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