In that case, it sure seems to me that if it makes it more cross platform,
and is easier to use, it makes much more sense to use gmodule.
-- Nathan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Ramirez [mailto:gram@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:13 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: 'Gilbert Ramirez'; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] Plugins and dynamic linking
>
>
> 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
>
