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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?
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.
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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...