[haiku-development] Re: Is im_kit within the scope of Haiku for GSoC projects?

  • From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:32:41 +0200


Am 07.04.2008 um 22:26 schrieb Cian Duffy:

On 07/04/2008, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Pier Luigi Fiorini
<pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As far as I can tell about libpurple has two problems:
- Its license is GPL
- It needs glib and/or dbus
GLib is not optional...D-Bus might be, checking with a co-worker who's 
a Pidgin dev.



Glib is relatively portable - 'not that long ago' (which means about
2004 probably) I got a patch to allow the current HEAD revision of
that time to compile on R5 net_server even. The question is do we want
it ported...
Earlier this year, the 2.15.x HEAD had some new features added such as special directory and mount point lookup, didn't find out how to do the latter on Haiku at the time.
Why would there be reasons against porting glib? It is a prerequisite for Mono (its private eglib is definitely not ported for BeOS/Haiku) and is independent of any feelings towards gtk+. 

Andreas

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