On 9/14/06, Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Don, 2006-09-14 at 10:59 +0100, Kevin Buckley wrote:
> On 13/09/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 9/13/06, Kevin Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
There is an official "GNOME Developer Platform"[1] but it has no
representation in BLFS - which is fine IMO, as BLFS is not a book
written for GNOME developers.
I think you misinterpreted Randy the first time because what Juerg
just wrote is really the essence of the matter and it's really what
Randy was driving at. In BLFS, although were installing all the
development libraries, the goal is to get a desktop set up.
But there certainly is such a thing as the GNOME development platform.
As you say, any developer can decide they want another dependency, but
the list you wrote would actually work pretty well since GnuCash is
very fleshed out.
The place this would be most interesting to the average BLFSer is
obviously when you aren't building a GNOME desktop but you want to use
some of the applications. So, I do think this is interesting and
relevant information.
--
Dan
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