[Mono-dev] Use eglib as a default for mono 2.6

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:53:45 -0400
Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:

> Luckily there are not that many public uses of the GLib data types in
> Mono's public header files, so when we decide to break the API for
> embedding we can do this at the same time.
> 
> I personally would like to see also migrate from the glib-provided
> data types to stdint.h provided datatypes where possible.

GLib, being a portability library, I think is a nice thing to use.  Is
there any way that (should the host system not actually have it) the
Mono build process could use a local copy of it (or fetch a copy and
build it along with Mono) and just use that?

That would seem to me a much more reasonable option than leaving
altogether.  If the host system doesn't have glib, or it has a glib
that is far out of date as would seem to be the original cause for this
thread, Mono can just build a copy and place it in /usr/local/lib along
with its libraries.

	Just my 2¢,
	Mike

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