Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] simpletrace: Thread-safe tracing

[Andreas Färber]

Am 23.03.2011 um 22:05 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Andreas Färber <address@hidden 
> > wrote:
> > Unfortunately compiling GLib from scratch (e.g., on Haiku) can be a  
> > lot of
> > work, too. The Mono folks abandoned it again in favor of their own
> > stripped-down GLib-compatible eglib implementation.
>
> Interesting, I haven't found much on eglib except the github repo  
> which says:
>
> "The purpose of eglib is to be an X11-licensed subset of glib that can
> be used with Mono when the Mono runtime is explicitly relicensed under
> a different license by Novell."
>
> If that's the main reason to create the library, then I'm happy to
> stick with glib.

I don't think so. That licensing issue was probably related to some  
game platform... certainly no reason to abondon LGPL, given the  
proximity to the GNOME community.

I believe there used to be no ppc64 and Win64 support in vanilla GLib  
(haven't checked ppc for a long time though). The e was supposed to be  
for embedded, i.e. for code size reduction - it's linked statically  
into Mono.

Just cautioning that GLib is really great when you have the packages  
on YourFavorite distro, but it can be a pain to deal with in some  
corner cases.

Andreas