Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: rev 15660: /trunk/plugins/asn1/: packet-asn1.c /trunk/epa

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From: "W. Borgert" <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 19:01:37 +0000
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:36:56PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> It might also not be installed by default on Linux distributions using KDE
> as the desktop.

I don't know of any Linux distribution that does not ship the
graphics program "gimp" which relies on libglib2 anyway.

> If we end up with non-GTK+ versions of Ethereal, making them not depend on
> GLib might be nice.

The libqt package is about eigth times as big as the libglib2
package, kdebaselibs alone has a factor of twentyfive, so I
don't think anybody will notice :-)

> (I.e., it might be ideal if GLib were used only by GTK+, so you only need
> it for a GTK+ Ethereal.)

I'm not so experienced in this matter, but my understanding
was, the libglib is a useful cross platform library for all
kind of things, not only for GUI and Gtk+.

Cheers, WB