On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:23:28AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago, we discussed shipping static libraries for things such as > gtk. Sadly, this dicsussion probably happened mainly on IRC, and left > no track on the consensus. I don't recall exactly what we reached, but > I recall that we faced these main issues: > > 2/ static libraries are huge in size, especially things such as gtk > > Point 2/ is the hardest as not only archive size is at hand, but also > buildd disk space (and time) needed to build the static copy.
Do you really think this is worse than X shipping static libraries ? I mean building X already used to need many GB of free disk space, and i have some doubts that gtk+ will be more disk-space hungry, but i could be wrong. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
