Sean Christopher Rhea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another thing that should probably be thought about is how many of
> the special features of each dependency are REALLY needed for
> GNUcash to work. One nice thing about a lot of the GNU programs is
> that if you have the latest and greatest version of a particular
> library, they'll use it; if you don't, however, they'll notice it in
> the configure script, set some defines, and work around it. Could
> this not be done for the Motif 2.0 symbols, or maybe libguile?
This is a potentially good idea, but the problem is that we're in an
intermediate phase right now, and it's not clear that working on more
modular support for temporary problems/modules is a good idea. For
example, its not clear to me one way or the other whether or not we're
going to keep the motif interface long term. If things continue to go
well with GNOME, I suspect not. Also, I'm not completely sure we'll
keep SWIG. I haven't had enough time to evaluate it, but it does
cause some complexities that might (or might not) outweigh its
benefits. I do know that guile is staying (at least as far as I'm
concerned). As long as I'm writing a decent amount of the code,
guile's only likely to become more central, not less.
FWIW
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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