Re: [tlug] GAGAIDS project, anyone?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Botond" == Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> writes:

    Botond> Sorry to say this, but if you'd post your exact problems
    Botond> instead of just whining in the public, someone might be
    Botond> able to help.

If I had a problem left other than wasted time that I can't get back,
I would.

Today, all I wanted was to get the librsvg library and headers from
DarwinPorts, and it pulled in 2 dozen basically irrelevant GNOME
packages including metacity (which is one of six that failed to
build).  The most briefly explicable and embarrassing reason for
failing is that gnome-vfs croaked because libgdkmime (or something
like that) has its own set of fixedwidth int types.  Ie, not the ones
from "glib.h" and not the ones from <inttypes.h>.  Nevertheless, some
lazy twit decided to use uint32ptr_t without including <inttypes.h>.

This ain't rocket science, and GNOME is supposed to be a collection of
reusable cooperating objects.  But it ain't, so I screamed.

Given that folks as diversely talented as Brian Behlendorf and Jamie
Zawinski have complained about this (Jamie even went so far as to
invent the acronym CADT), the existence of GAGAIDS is a distinct
possibility.

So, let me ask more politely.  "Does anybody know of sources for
useful independent components extracted from GNOME, avoiding
dependencies on GNOME as much as possible?"

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