Hi! On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Kristian Rietveld <k...@loopnest.org> wrote: > >> On 13 May 2017, at 14:52, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You realize that for platforms other than Linux, that if you wish to install >>> glib-networking, you have to install >> >> Yes I realize that dependencies have often dependencies themselves. >> Unless there is something which proves to be impossible to compile on >> other platforms, I don't see the problem. > > A possible problem is that all of these extra dependencies have to be shipped > in macOS and Windows packages. If in any of these dependencies serious bugs > (e.g. security) are found, we need to ship updated packages. A problem like > this does not exist on Linux since you would typically simply update the > distribution packages (although not sure how that will work for Flatpak). > > A potential solution could be to write a Mac-specific GIO TLS backend that > depends on macOS system libraries which can be shipped instead of the default > TLS backend that depends on gnutls.
Of course, this would make total sense. If there is such a backend (or if someone, like you on MacOS, write it! ;P), we could have different dependencies for different platforms. No prob. :-) Jehan > > regards, > > -kris. > -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
