Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-09 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: I consider this an occasion for a bigger discussion on redesigning libgnome-desktop, moving forward from being the container of useful libgnome parts, to the One Desktop Library. Makes sense to me. The one

Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 09 novembre 2010 à 17:31 -0500, Colin Walters a écrit : Makes sense to me. The one concern I have is whether or not we should be continually bumping the SONAME. I'd vote for yes - more pain, but also more correct. Yes please. Shared libraries without correct versioning are *much*

Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 11/09/10 16:33, Giovanni Campagna wrote: Then there are microlibraries, killing which would help performance. These include for example libgtop, libgweather and libgnomekbd, but also liboobs if the system tool backends are not dead. I can't find an use for them outside core desktop, while

Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Behdad: I'd say no. If it's already in a library that does not break its API every other week, let it be there. That's the correct design anyway. Something like libgweather does not belong in a generic desktop library. libgweather is GPL, so it is probably not something that could be