Glib or no glib - we need a decision

2009-01-09 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Hey, As there are some guys here which want to stick with glib and some who doesn't want this. As each sites have some good arguments pro or contra glib I'll write some thoughs here down and would like to ask you to add your arguments here and discuss then these arguments on the list. Please

Re: Glib or no glib - we need a decision

2009-01-09 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Winnertz wrote: Hey, As there are some guys here which want to stick with glib and some who doesn't want this. As each sites have some good arguments pro or contra glib I'll write some thoughs here down and would like to ask you

Re: Glib or no glib - we need a decision

2009-01-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Patrick Winnertz win...@debian.org schrieb: contra: - glib is huge and we only use a very small amount of functions. Rewriting this functions would make mc smaller and faster. This is important at least for embedded devices. Note that there's many many places where the glib

Re: Glib or no glib - we need a decision

2009-01-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
(call it as you want: mcglib, mccore, mclib.so,...), and will add in ./configure.ac option '--without-glib' Yes, that would be easy. But as I already wrote own (glib-free) implementations for that stuff, I doubt why we should glib at all ;-o cu

glib or not glib? (was: Re: [Midnight Commander] #150: [PATCH] More FHS-compliant install directories)

2009-01-07 Thread Andrew Borodin
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:35:25 +0100 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * MC Ticket System tick...@midnight-commander.org schrieb: Why the _strcatdup() function is used instead of g_strconcat() one? First tiny step to get rid if glib. It's very strange. Do you think than mc must be free of glib? glib

Re: glib or not glib?

2009-01-07 Thread Roland Illig
Andrew Borodin schrieb: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:35:25 +0100 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * MC Ticket System tick...@midnight-commander.org schrieb: Why the _strcatdup() function is used instead of g_strconcat() one? First tiny step to get rid if glib. It's very strange. Do you think than mc must

Re: glib or not glib? (was: Re: [Midnight Commander] #150: [PATCH] More FHS-compliant install directories)

2009-01-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrew Borodin aboro...@vmail.ru schrieb: Hi, First tiny step to get rid if glib. It's very strange. Do you think than mc must be free of glib? Yes, because glib is a fat blob we don't really need (the few things we currently use can be easily done w/ a bunch of macros or inline's

Re: glib or not glib?

2009-01-07 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Illig wrote: glib or not glib? I want to keep it. +1 In source code some functions (part of functions) is a duplicate of glib-functional... I think, we need to review source code for more using of glib functions... BTW, is we need to keep

Re: glib or not glib?

2009-01-07 Thread Andrew Borodin
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:11:56 +0100 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Andrew Borodin schrieb: First tiny step to get rid if glib. It's very strange. Do you think than mc must be free of glib? Yes, because glib is a fat blob we don't really need (the few things we currently use can be easily done