Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:11:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fail to build XEmacs with GTK Message-ID: <20030314210940.N1839@znfgre.tberna.bet> In-Reply-To: <1047645619.2553.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <OE51K6qSX422M3fJTmh0000e396@hotmail.com> <1047615404.66262.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030314043154.GA94526@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1047616453.66262.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030313230858.H1839@znfgre.tberna.bet> <1047645619.2553.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 02:09, Doug Barton wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> > > However, WITH/WANT_GTK are deprecated,
> >
> > I never saw a good explanation for this. If I just want gtk, why do I have
> > to get *_GNOME involved?
>
> It allowed us to scale more, and remove redundancy. For example, you
> can have WITH_GTK (that's fine). But what about GTK2, GTK3, etc.? With
> one macro that allows for listing, we can better accommodate things like
> this. After 4.8 is released, the USE_GNOMENG macro will go away, so
> you'll be down to just USE_GNOME= <list>.
Sorry, you haven't actually answered my question. Why were the gtk knobs
sucked into gnome? gnome is one consumer of gtk, but there are many
others.
> (And, for backwards compatibility's sake, WITH_GTK will still be around
> for a while).
IMO, it should stay around in perpetuity.
Doug
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