Re: 3.0 when?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

OK. I understand your policy well. 
Then I'll also include the description of the pkg-config into my turial which 
will be prepared in the
future.
Thanks for a reply.

Regards
Tatsuro

--- Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > Hello Benjamin
> > 
> > I have fogotten ask you that the pkg-config and the Glib 2 will be 
> > inculuded in 
> > your distribution (to the mingw treees), which is available from:
> > 
> > http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
> > 
> > These are not the libraries and header files but required to tool for the 
> > pkg install for the 
> > symbolic packages.  Recently Unix tools tend to use the pkg-config.
> > So that I think at least it is better to inculde these in your distribution.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Tatsuro 
> 
> Thanks for the link, I will take a look into it
> 
> However, I frankly disapprove of forcing yet another packaging tool 
> simply to retrieve compile and link settings.
> This only makes sense if the dependencies were built on the very same 
> machine that the end program will run on. Otherwise all paths at compile 
> time may be invalid - so why bother with them in the first place?
> And since win32 software should be designed to run from any location the 
> user choses to install this is simply not useful.
> 
> IMO it should be possible to specify compile settings and libraries via 
> environment variables (like e.g. the LIBXML2 settings in when 
> configuring libfontconfig). I see no point in requiring another tools 
> for this.
> 
> anyway, thanks again for the hint. I will take a look.
> 
> benjamin
> 


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