[crossfire] Update client GLib dependency

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.


I'm ok with using glib everywhere on the client, as long as you have fun with 
that :)


Regards


Nicolas


Le jeudi 8 mai 2014 03:25:59, Kevin Zheng a écrit :
> Hi there,
> 
> The GTKv2 client sources are split up into two parts, one for "common"
> code that can be shared across different clients, and a "gtk-v2" part
> that implements the GTK+ client itself.
> 
> GLib is a very useful library that provides portable data structures,
> lexical scanners, threads, mutexes, timers, hook functions, and sockets.
> Currently it is only used in the GTKv2 client because it is a dependency
> of GTK+. I propose that GLib should be a dependency for the entire client.
> 
> 1. There are lots of cool things that GLib will let us have that we
> don't have now. Dynamically allocated strings, advanced data types, and
> even a config file parser are all available from GLib.
> 
> 2. GLib will make things more portable. I've been able to get the client
> building on Windows again, but it's still very messy, particularly due
> to excessive conditional compilation. GLib implements its own portable
> sockets that can be used on multiple platforms.
> 
> 3. GLib will make things less broken. Connecting to a server is a mess,
> and sometimes freezes the client given the right circumstances.
> Threading, callbacks, and parsing are messy, too.
> 
> 4. GLib is already a dependency. Besides, on my system, the library and
> all development files takes only 17 MB. Most people already have it
> installed, because it is a dependency for Gtk, Qt, and more.
> 
> 5. Even if somebody decides to write another client using SDL, OpenGL,
> or maybe even Tcl, GLib can still be used and will still provide all of
> its happy shiny benefits.
> 
> 6. You probably don't care, since you're using the must shinier and
> prettier and portable JXClient. So you should let me do whatever
> satisfies my evil wishes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin Zheng
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