[Adonthell-devel] Re: Makefile question

[Kai Sterker]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Chris Frey <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dumb(?) question:  what is the advantage of including .glade stuff
> in the code?  I thought .glade files were just distributed along
> with the app and installed under /usr/share somewhere.

Yeah, and that works fine on Linux, of course :-).

However, I was worried about building binaries for OSX and Win32,
which would have to look for those files in different places. So I
figured the easiest thing would be to include them directly in the
code.

Of course, that led to the problem of having two copies of the
ui-definition that would get out of sync all the time. I guess
figuring out platform-independent loading of an external glade file
would have been just as fast in the end ;-).

Kai