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Info about glib
by Christian F.K. Schaller on Friday 29/Nov/2002, @14:43

Reading the archives I get the feeling there are some misconceptions about glib
among some of the KDE developers. glib is in many respects the bottom layer of GNOME, but it is not a GUI development library at all and has no dependencies itself that KDE don't already have. Glib provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

Using glib to develop C programs makes sense for all C programs even non-gui ones, and I know that many of the GNU developers are considering starting to use glib in the console tools that we all expect to be part of a standard unix implementation.

So please do not think of glib as a 'GNOME' library, it is more correct to think of it as a glibc extension to make life easier for C developers.

A good example of a non-gui library that has nothing to do with desktop development, using glib, is oRTP which is an implementation of the RTP protocol.

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