[Freeciv-Dev] Re: patch: hash.c (PR#318)

[sebauer@xxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Bauer)]

Hi Jeff

On 19-Mär-00, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
> At 2000/03/19 07:03 , Raimar Falke wrote:
>> I don't know very much about the Amiga, Mac, BeOS und Win32 port. Maybe 
>> someone who is using it can comment what software is available.

Sadly on the Amiga glib is not nativly available. I would have to switch
back to gcc but I don't like this.

>>> 2. We could try to extract parts of glib which we want.  The question
>>> is how easy or difficult it would be to extract and adapt for freeciv's
>>> purpose (eg, without dragging in a whole lot of extra stuff and 
>>> effectively including a duplicated glib within freeciv).  Since 
>>> registry.c already has most of a hashing implementation it seemed 
>>> easier to use that, so I didn't look into the glib possibility, but 
>>> others may wish to.
>> IMHO it is better to use the time to port glib to these platforms.
> I have a friend who does play Freeciv (on UNIX) who has stated that he
> wouldn't bother if he had to install glib.
> Without a compelling reason, I think we should avoid adding required
> dependencies.

I agree here. All works more or less good like it is now. I see no
benefits in using glib at the moment.

bye,
Sebastian Bauer