Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Plugins and dynamic linking

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:13:12 -0600
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:25:22AM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> 
> 
> I sure would rather do it that way, as libtool can be quite annoying at
> times.
> 
> However, there is one concern, it does tie ethereal to glib/gtk. (Not that 
> I
> think this is bad.)

A lot of code I have written in Ethereal uses the data structures
in glib. Since glib, as of version 1.2, is shipped independently of
gtk+, this is not a bad thing, as it's a utility library, not a GUI
library.  Likewise, gmodule, is GUI-independent.

--gilbert