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The purpose of eglib is to be an X11-licensed subset of glib that can
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be used with Mono when the Mono runtime is explicitly relicensed under
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a different license by Novell.
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The implementation is done from the public documentation available here:
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http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/
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Currently this is only being built standalone, use:
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./autogen.sh --prefix=/tmp/test
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Currently all the definitions go into a single file: glib.h, there are
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no separate files, please try to follow the convetions in the source code
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* Tests
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Please read the README in tests/
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* Features
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The source code is designed to allow for different operating
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system builds of the eglib code.
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Files in src that:
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* Have a plain name: are cross platform, and should work on
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every operating system.
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* That end in -unix.c: These files contain Unix specific code.
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* That end in -win32.c: These files contain Win32 specific code.
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* That end in -posix.c: Will work on both Windows and Unix,
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but should not be included for other operating systems.
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* Plans: short and long term.
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The short term plans for eglib is to allow Mono to optionally
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build with it instead of using glib, gmodule and gthread, but
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the default build will continue to be done against glib 2.0.
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In the long-term we are considering dropping glib as a
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dependency, considering that Mono requires a modern Unix
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system to run anyways (for its thread support) it would allow
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us to fix some of the glib API limitations we have to live
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with (explicit thread support for example), rework the API to
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use types from stdint.h and we would be able to drop three
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external shared libraries.
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This would reduce memory usage for the handful of routines
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that we use from glib, dynamic linker overhead for those and
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would allow us to tune the implementation to Mono's needs.
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