On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:20:41AM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > In dwm/dmenu and probably st I see some potential to share a single > implementation of draw.c. At first I wanted to create a lib for this, > but when Connor tested this approach in dmenu we concluded, that > additional library dependencies suck. > > The best compromise we came up with is having a shared draw.c among > dwm and dmenu at least, which is on the agenda for dwm 6.0. Probably > this could also be used for st.
What made you come to this conclusion? I've found a few places where small shared libraries make my life much easier. And wouldn't it be easier for somebody to just have a shared library appropriate to their environment (x11 or opengl, for example), to compile against, rather than find their preferred environment's draw.c and copy it into the appropriate directory? Don't get me wrong, I very much like the low dependency load of suckless stuff, but I don't see why a .c file is better than an installed .a for shared functions. Nick
