Message-ID: <19990713085854.A25357@r.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 1999-07-12T20:58:54Z
From: Lyndon Drake
Subject: Gnome interface status report
In-Reply-To: <14217.46777.465134.108233@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>; from Kurt Hornik on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:34:49AM +0200
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:34:49AM +0200, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> Committed yet? I don't seem to get these with cvs update ...
>
Oops. Done now.
> Re X11/gnome: Last week I suggested that eventually we might have
> something like
>
> unix/...
> unix/X11 => libRX11.so
> unix/gnome => libRgnome.so
> maybe also
> unix/kde
> ???
>
> and at startup do
>
> LoadSharedLib("libR$GUI.so")
>
> My impression was that the comments we received were all positive. So,
> maybe we should keep this in mind.
>
> Even without the GUI DLL, the above organization would be a lot cleaner.
> How easy would it be to accomplish that? It seems that we can have
>
> *sock*
> dynload.c
> hpdlfcn.c
>
> in common, and maybe we only need to take waitforActivity() out from
> system.c?
>
I like the idea of organising the files this way. The shared library thing
could be a bit tricky, but I guess it could be done.
devPS.c
devPicTeX.c
dynload.c
edit.c
Rsock.c
sock.c
are already used directly from the unix directory by the Gnome interface.
We could easily split up system.c into a couple of files. This would give
us:
unix
|-system.c, devPS.c, ..., sock.c
|-X11
| |-system-X11.c, edit.c, devX11.c, ...
|-gnome
| |-system-gnome.c, edit.c, devGnome.c, ...
Doing this as a source split (rather than turning things into shared
libraries) would mean putting main into system-X11.c and system-gnome.c,
but would make maintaining the source for the stuff that's share between
both interfaces much simpler.
Lyndon
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