Re: Minor updates in CVS

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:27:08PM -0700, James Rich wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Scott Klement wrote:
>
> > One small problem, though.  b0-16 does not use glib.  (Only HEAD uses glib)
> >
> > That's why the Windows support only exists in 0-16, because of glib.
> > (Yes, I know they make glib for Windows, but it's beta-only, and I haven't
> > had a chance to download and play with it.)

It's not beta!  I used it _years_ ago, when gtk+ on Windows was not even
alpha software, and glib was solid as a rock with Tor Lillqvist's changes
folded back into the main tree (it's not that I feel the need to give credit,
I just love the dude's name).  In fact, separating glib from gtk+ was
partly motivated by the fact that glib was useful and more portable than
gtk+.

I think making the Windows port use glib would probably make things easier.

>
> Because of this I assume that scs2pdf won't work under Windows (scs2pdf
> uses glib)?

I wonder if glib has some sort of pipe or other inter-process communication
feature?  It seems likely, as Tor was running into pipes not working those
million years ago-- he was porting the Gimp, and Gimp plugins use pipes for
communication.  I think I suggested using TCP sockets, as they pretty much
work accross platforms.

>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>
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