[geeks] OSX Server

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 21:56:38 CST 2005


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:00:51 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix
<shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> A lot of it is because the applet system is not accessible from an X
> interface alone, or some small "applet library", you have to link in
> just about everything.
> 
> The mixer applet links to 57 libraries.

Talk about dependency hell.
 
> Even small programs, to be a real Gnome program, have to link to a large
> number of libraries.
> 
> I realize that this level of integration is difficult, but it could have
> been done without such huge dependency issues.  There seems to be no
> serious effort to keep things as modular as possible.
> 
> It may even be true that interdependence is so extensive, that there is
> little point in trying to write a lean applet, except to keep your own
> part from adding to the total.

*snort* They are porting Gnome to *embedded* platforms.  What insanity!
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