Ximin Luo <[email protected]> writes: > On 19/06/14 10:02, Max wrote: >> 18.06.2014 14:19, Ian Goldberg пишет: >>> >>> Wouldn't that make glib a new dependency of libotr? I'd prefer to avoid >>> that, of course. >> >> Could you elaborate why? The benefits seems substantial and glibc is fairly >> ubiquitous. > > glib isn't glibc.
Indeed. And glibc only shows up on Linux; it's hardly portable/ubiquitous. More seriously, it's good to avoid dependencies unless they are really necessary. And then, one has to evaluate the stability of the library and their commitment to backwards compatibility. glib isn't that huge, and is probably one of the least troublesome things to depeend on, but still absent a compelling need libotr is better off without it. Adding something like qt would really make it much harder to build libotr.
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