[REBOL] Re: /View as a Product
From: holger:rebol at: 21-Feb-2001 13:52
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:55:22AM -0800, Elan wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I agree with you that a switch could be used to switch off the X
> dependency.
Unfortunately this would not work. The X dependency of View is not caused
by anything View does, but by the fact that the linker creates references
to X libraries, i.e. the error messages if you don't have X installed
are not displayed by View, but by the Unix loader, long before View is
really started and has a chance to parse command line arguments.
It would be possible to work around this by using dynamic library loading and
linking, but that creates a flurry of other problems (compatibility, versioning
etc.), so we would rather not do it. The best solution is to keep Core and
View separate.
--
Holger Kruse
[holger--rebol--com]
