Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Libraries vs Packaging (1): Linkage

[Guillaume M. <res...@gm...>]

> Something I have been musing about for a while is how we could implement
> optional dependencies into java-gnome.
I have been thinking about it too.

> The big case that pushes this is WebKit. We'd like to include coverage
> of WebKitGtk soon. But either you have it on your distro and can easily
> build against it, or you don't, and it becomes a blocker against you're
> being able to build java-gnome from source.
I'd like to add appindicator (for Ubuntu) as an optional dependency too.

The thing is that in Java we don't have #ifdef like C[++]. So we will
need our build system to compile only buildable classes. We could use
modules that would not be depend from each other except for a first
module which would be the base for all other.

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Guillaume Mazoyer - http://www.respawner.fr/