Re: guile-gnome bits

[Andy Wingo]

Hey Kevin,

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:52 +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley
> 
> So (just having a bit of a dig :-)

I am amusing myself also :)

>  the criteria for inclusion now is to
> be buggy and poorly looked after.  You can imagine the next project will
> be to break out little-used parts into separate libraries because
> they're not much used, poorly maintained, and buggy.  :-)

GTK+ is better maintained than the gnome libs. The reason this process
of moving the useful bits into GTK+ is because the bar is higher -- it
takes time to get most things to the point that the maintainers will
accept. See e.g. GVFS, which has been Alex Larsson's primary job for
going on a year now and still isn't ready. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00899.html for
his rationale.

Even if your evaluation were correct, it would not then be possible to
remove anything from GTK, because it is stable :)

Cheers,

Andy
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