On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:10 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: > ext Alberto Garcia <agar...@igalia.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:08:00PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: > > > >> > we can perfectly create a parallel installable version of the > >> > same library, that the community can maintain in extras and link > >> > against in their applications. > >> > >> Yes, but there are some practical problems about that. > > > > The first obvious problem is that we would end up having two similar > > versions of the same library installed, and that means more disk and > > memory, apart from the inability to use maemo-launcher. > > > > What else? > > You have to be careful to never link two libraries with overlapping > symbols into the same process. In the case of libhildon, that is > probably manageable, and the possibility can probably be ignored. > > If necessary, there can even be a second maemo-launcher.
I don't see any need whatsoever to fork hildon. It's just an invitation to confusion and nasty problems such as this. If someone wants to create a reusable set of widgets, they should just create a new library. It's not difficult. What's the downside? -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
