[maemo-developers] hildon dependency on modified gtk+ (was: sbox2 & maemo)

[From: Loïc Minier]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Xan wrote:
> The issue here is: the pc file for hildon-1 hardcodes MAEMO_CHANGES to
> 1, so anything you build on top of it will get that define. This wan
> fine by the time we did it ("if you use hildon you surely want all the
> stuff and certainly you are using our gtk version"), but now that we
> aim to be an upstream project it is no longer acceptable. At the very
> least we should add the MAEMO_CHANGES to the pc file only if hildon-1
> is compiled against our gtk. More rational configuration management is
> badly needed here.

 I agree this is a problem, but to my understanding some components
 still require the filechooser Gtk patch, and then need MAEMO_CHANGES to
 build; so this flag is going to be required as long as the filechooser
 is mandatory.

 What's the way forward?  Some options I imagine:
 1) split MAEMO_CHANGES in more conditional in modules:
 - HAS_GTK_FILECHOOSER_API
 - HAS_GDK_CLOSEALL_API
 - etc.
 => lots of work, but most modular / flexible / powerful

 2) make all apps build without the filechooser specific bits
 => some work, don't know if that's possible to implement at all, dead
 end when one tries to use any of the MAEMO_CHANGES

 3) only split HAS_GTK_FILECHOOSER_API as a separate conditional, but
 use MAEMO_CHANGES for all the other changes
 => would work short term :)

 What's the contract of the modules so far?

-- 
Loïc Minier