[Glade-devel] Why libxml2 and not GMarkupParser?

[Tim Müller]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:26, Damon Chaplin wrote:

> Another thing to remember is that GTK+ might like to include libglade at
> some point, and they may not want to depend on libxml. So this patch may
> be useful at that point. (Unless they already depend on libxml - I'm not
> sure.)

If Gtk+-2.x already depended on libxml2, the whole patch would merely be an 
academic exercise, wouldn't it? :-)

% ldd /usr/local/bin/xchat | sed -e 's/^\t*//' -e 's/=>.*$//' | sort
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXft.so.2
libXi.so.6
libXrender.so.1
libatk-1.0.so.0
libc.so.6
libcrypto.so.0.9.7
libdl.so.2
libexpat.so.1
libfontconfig.so.1
libfreetype.so.6
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0
libgmodule-2.0.so.0
libgobject-2.0.so.0
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
libm.so.6
libpango-1.0.so.0
libpangox-1.0.so.0
libpangoxft-1.0.so.0
libssl.so.0.9.7
libz.so.1

I don't know though whether the Gtk+ people are actually thinking about 
including libglade itself, or if their intention is rather to re-write the 
functionality libglade provides from scratch.  The document at

   http://www.gtk.org/plan/2.6/

talks about a "libglade equivalent", which sounds a bit ambiguous to me.

Cheers
-Tim