Re: Release? was Re: Stepping back as Zinf Debian maintainer

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Steve Holmes writes:

> >> Ok. The patch, as it stands, adds a glib dependency into the id3lib
> >> plugin. Is that ok? Glib is currently only required for the gtk parts of
> >> zinf. Do these text-only people object to the use of glib?
> > Sorry, but I would object merely on the principle that if I don't use
> > GTK or X, why should there be X windows dependencies scattered about?
> 
> I don't think that glib is actually dependent on any X lib.  Glib is just a
> generic library of utility functions that's used by Gnome wares; stuff like
> string handling, etc…

That is correct. It has functions for checking for valid UTF8, and
converting strings to UTF8 from other encodings. I realised this could be
optional. If you don't have glib, then you will have to put up with the
strings being in whatever encoding the tags are in.

No biggy.

Rob

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