"A number of search engines are available for the Gnome and KDE desktop environments, many based around the open source Lucene search engine. It would be tremendous if we could adopt one of these search engines for the Gnome platform, so we can provide the type of integrated search experience for our users that they really need, irrespective of which distort they are using. So to help in this assessment we have carried out a comparison of four different Unix based indexers [.pdf]."
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Member since:2005-07-07
Member since:2005-07-07
hmmm. i'm getting confused now. i thought for a long time glib wasn't related to gnome, then something came up (don't remember what, see my nick) which apparently made me think it WAS gnome-related...
now you say it isn't. hmmm 
and google says:
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis of GTK+ and GNOME.
so, who's right? you or google?
Member since:2005-07-09
glib is basically as set of c functions to handle data structures plus a few things like event loops and basic thread (see http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/glib/index.html ).
There's nothing GNOME-specific about it and it's extremely useful if you're doing any C programming since it allows you not to re-invent the wheel (e.g. virtually every C programmer re-invents the linked list). The danger of this constant re-inventing is that you might accidentally re-invent it wrong or re-invent it non-optimally.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:
2005-07-07
i stand corrected on the c++ issue, i see it's indeed C++. but g(nome)lib is definitely a dependency, it's the main reason apt-getting KDE pulls it in...