Re: [Cscmail-devel] gtkhtml deps

[Steven K. <st...@vo...>]

On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 01:40:08 +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen said:

> I am the author of GNU Solfege, and recently I noticed your
>  ungnomified cschtml-widget. I understand your your motivations
>  for forking gtkhtml because I want Solfege to run on systems
>  without GNOME. But I believe that if we could make gtkhtml
>  to compile without all the gnomelibs, and avoiding a fork, it
>  would be to the best for everybody.

I agree.
  
>  I have just started digging into the dependencies, but as far
>  as I can tell, gtkhtml depends on:
>    gtk+ that depends on libart and gtk-pixbuf
>  and
>    gnome-print
>  
>  Bonobo can be configures out.
>  
>  My question is, have you had any contact with the gtkhtml authors
>  about making printing with gnome-print optional at build time?
>  If so, what was their answer? As far as I can tell from the sources,
>  is should not be too difficult to do this.

I am currently in communication with Ettore regarding this exact thing. 
At this time he is waiting for me to submit a patch to allow compile time
GNOME checking that will allow GtkHTML to compile in absence of GNOME. 
Once we get that far, we will look at further divorcing GtkHTML from the
GNOME deps, possibly by splitting the GtkHTML widget and the GNOME
specific portions into two entities.  GtkHTML: The Widget (no GNOME) and
GNOME-HTML: The Wrapper (Depends on GtkHTML and adds the "GNOME" specific
features.)  This is my ideal goal for GtkHTML, but I am not holding my
breath, as Ettore doesn't seem too interested in this at all.  In fact,
it is ONLY because I went to the trouble to do the CscHTML fork and
announce it on Freshmeat etc. that he has even agreed to LOOK at a patch
to GtkHTML.  (There was quite a stir on the gno...@gn... mailing
list regarding the fork etc...)  Anyway, I wouldn't mind help on creating
a GtkHTML patch that allows the current CVS version to detect the
presence of GNOME and #ifdef away the GNOME deps if GNOME is absent. 
Depending on how Ettore and clan deal with the patch, will determine if I
let CscHTML die out, or if I continue to develop it.

-CZ
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