On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:11:02PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote: > From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 14 Mar 2004 02:50:09 +0100 > > Robert L Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fink and Darwinports are simply not options for mainline OS X > > users. Mac users want to literally buy a machine and turn it on. > > Think about what happens when you buy a lamp, you plug it into > > the wall and turn it on. They're amazingly close to that, with > > things like Airport. >From a user engineering standpoint, it's a > > tour de force. > > Afak, you can build binary images from darwinport packages with a > single command. If you provide such an image file to your users, > it's a matter or dragging the file onto the finder and the software > is installed, ready to be used. But certainly you know about this > and I assume that this is the way you are offering the gimp-print > software to MacOS X users. It would be easy to include glib2 as > part of this gimp-print image file. > > That's what I meant; that would be a possibility. We would just need > to make sure it didn't collide with anything else. I prefer to > minimize the amount of stuff we install in the background, but that > could conceivably be an option. Whether it's worthwhile is a second > question.
Why not just statically link to glib 2 when you make the OS X binary build? Seems that'd solve this whole issue nicely. -Yosh _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
