Re: external dependencies; trolling for more feedback, pushing to make it official ; -)

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 9/22/06, Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:51 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > On 9/11/06, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
> > > The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus
> > > that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies,
> > > and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in jhbuild.
> >
> > Due to the feedback received so far, I've modifed the exact wording of
> > the proposal and the list of versions a couple times so far.  I
> > thought it'd be worth posting the most recent version and asking if
> > there was any further feedback on it or objections to it being
> > adopted:
>
> Ace. I created and populated:
> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependenciesDistroAnalysis

Looking at this, and noticing that FC6 does not meet some of the requirement
made me wonder: what exacly are the reasons that we require

dbus-glib            0.71
desktop-file-utils  0.11
liboil                   0.3.9

?

In particular the desktop-file-utils version seems pretty arbitrary,
since for all I
know the only change wrt to 0.10 was to switch to goption commandline
parsing...

Matthias