Re: X and other visions

[Sören Schulze]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > I don't know whether it's possible for text-based software to use
>    > libgnomevfs, but it only depends on libbonobo and not the core
>    > GNOME libraries so I don't see why it should be impossible.
> 
>    It's probably possible, but you'll have to link against MBs of
>    libraries.
> 
> How is this different from any other program?  Lets see, ext2fs needs
> the following:
> 
> ,----
> | login> ldd /hurd/ext2fs
> |         libhurdbugaddr.so.0.3 => /lib/libhurdbugaddr.so.0.3 (0x0101f000)
> |         libdiskfs.so.0.3 => /lib/libdiskfs.so.0.3 (0x01021000)
> |         libpager.so.0.3 => /lib/libpager.so.0.3 (0x01041000)
> |         libiohelp.so.0.3 => /lib/libiohelp.so.0.3 (0x01048000)
> |         libfshelp.so.0.3 => /lib/libfshelp.so.0.3 (0x0104b000)
> |         libstore.so.0.3 => /lib/libstore.so.0.3 (0x01050000)
> |         libthreads.so.0.3 => /lib/libthreads.so.0.3 (0x01093000)
> |         libports.so.0.3 => /lib/libports.so.0.3 (0x01099000)
> |         libihash.so.0.3 => /lib/libihash.so.0.3 (0x010a0000)
> |         libshouldbeinlibc.so.0.3 => /lib/libshouldbeinlibc.so.0.3
> (0x010a3000)
> |         libc.so.0.3 => /lib/libc.so.0.3 (0x010ac000)
> |         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x011fc000)
> |         /lib/ld.so => /lib/ld.so (0x00001000)
> |         libmachuser.so.1 => /lib/libmachuser.so.1 (0x01200000)
> |         libhurduser.so.0.3 => /lib/libhurduser.so.0.3 (0x01212000)
> | login> 
> `----
> 
> It isn't like you load one seperate copy of each library for every
> program that is running.

You're right, it isn't.
But nevertheless there is a difference:

These libraries are basic GNU/Hurd libraries. You will have them installed
anyway.
libbonobo, on the other hand, is something GNOME-specific.

>    And linking against libbonobo is only useful for a GNOME program.
> 
> If libbonobo provides features that can be used by a non-GNOME
> program, then this isn't true.  But I don't know exactly what
> libbonobo does so...

It's not only libbonobo itself.
libbonobo depends on some basic GNOME libraries.

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