[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Alberto Garcia <agarcia at igalia.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:08:00PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
>
>> > we can perfectly create a parallel installable version of the
>> > same library, that the community can maintain in extras and link
>> > against in their applications.
>> 
>> Yes, but there are some practical problems about that.
>
> The first obvious problem is that we would end up having two similar
> versions of the same library installed, and that means more disk and
> memory, apart from the inability to use maemo-launcher.
>
> What else?

You have to be careful to never link two libraries with overlapping
symbols into the same process.  In the case of libhildon, that is
probably manageable, and the possibility can probably be ignored.

If necessary, there can even be a second maemo-launcher.