On 13/09/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/13/06, Kevin Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13/09/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...
> > Not all of the GNOME apps require
> > all 17 of those packages you listed. Your list really is only
> > accurate for GnuCash and perhaps some others.
>
> That's also news to me, I had assumed, by working through the dependencies
> when building GnuCash2 that that list pretty much was a GNOME2 "core".
Kevin, although I agree with Randy that the purpose of the GNOME
chapter in the book is to generate a GNOME desktop, I think the
information you're talking about is equally interesting. It would be
really cool if you could add the info about generating a gnome-2
development platform on the Wiki.
HI there,
Firstlly, a correction to my initial post, it was a GnuCash devel list
I bounced
the minimum list off not a GNOME one - got a bit confused there.
Anyroad, the way I read Randy's reply suggested that there isn't really such a
thing as a "GNOME2 development platform" just a mandated list of dependencies,
from the GNOME libraries and utilities, which, sadly, would appear to
be different
for every package that purports to be "written for GNOME", whatever that really
means.
What often seems, to me at least, to happen is that a developer decides
to add a new functionality to an existing package, and decides that the best
implementation of that functionality is something in the GNOME universe: at that
point, all of a sudden the old package becomes reliant on a lot more
within GNOME
because of the dependecies with whatever gives the implentation of the
functionality.
Eg, I was quite surprised to find that I needed "gnome-keyring" to
build my "low-spec"
version of GnuCash2.
I'd be more than happy to add the info however, in the light of
Randy's points about
even those 17 packages not really being a GNOME "core" but only the minimum
requirements for a "not-fully functional but functional enough for me"
GnuCash, it
might serve to cause more confusion.
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