[Gegl-developer] Patch: GIO dependency made optionnal

[Øyvind Kolås]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Hubert Figuiere <hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> Here is my initial patch for GEGL to make gio an optional dependency for
> those who run an already obsolete version of glib.

This isn't only about obsolete versions of glib since there is no
version having a GIO
supporting all the features GeglBuffer would want it to, see bug
#533547. Thus unless
this gets resolved in glib we might have to fall back to regular posix
calls anyways.

> The only non-trivial part is GFileMonitor, and I actually scraped that
> part.

Could be reimplemented using polling, or perhaps even better using
mmap for at least the buffer header.

> Also another caveat is that I had to change the prototype of two
> functions that wanted a GInputStream *.

These are internal for now so it isn't an issue.

> Any comment?

Commit this change at will to GEGL when you think it has recevied enough polish.

/Øyvind K.
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