Re: glib dependency

[Helge Deller]

Pawel Kot wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Helge Deller <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  I've not developed much for gnokii in that last months, so I'm not sure if
> > it's valid that I comment here.
>
> Every comment is valid, useful and appreciated.

Thanks.

> > Nevertheless I think it's a bad idea to add a dependency on any "external" 
> > library.
>
> There are already several but they are optional.
>
> >  gnokii can be used very good in embedded devices and glib would just add
> > more (mostly unneeded) resources.
> >
> >  IMHO, better add functions which provide the functionality you need...
>
> I think this is the huge problem with Open Source development.
> Everybody is afraid of the bloat given by dependency on the external
> library and reimplements the same functionality :(

Not necessarily.

> I don't think we will avoid dependency on openobex, libsyncml, libical
> or libvcard in the near future.

Agreed, and all of those are pretty lean and make full sense.
It just depends on how gnokii tools/binaries are organized.

I think libgnokii (the library) should have a minimal list of dependency 
on external libraries, where libobex and libsyncml might be OK.
On the other side, gnokii (the executable) could then depend on libical 
and libvcard to read/write the files, while the low-level handling with 
the phone is done in libgnokii (which should not depend on 
libical/libvcard).

 > However I gave up idea with a hashtable for the moment: we don't have
> that large lists that it would make any real difference. On the other
> hand C programming would be much easier when standard library would
> offer operations on basic data structures...

Ok.

Best regards,
Helge