Re: SPEC files for gnome 2.0 beta

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

Hi Mark,

Well the reason is two fold. First of all, i would prefer Greg to look 
over them, since he is the maintainer of the current spec files, so i 
don't want to pass him by. (And his standards are high, so the extra 
eyeballs are always a good thing)

Secondly i still have to learn how to do the required Makefile.am magic 
to generate the spec files in configure.. (though from the look of 
things its not rocket science?) If someone could whip me up a few quick 
pointers on what the procedure is with that, i'll create proper patches 
to be intergrated in CVS.

That brings me to the next point, i don't have CVS commit access, so its 
either hoping Greg will want to intergrate them, or file bugzilla 
entries for all of the patches ;-)

Anyways, lets hope we can get them in there rather sooner then later, 
since it would improve the gnome experiance for a lot of potential beta 
testing people.

After that, it might be worth to make a packaging component in all 
gnome2 modules, so people can file bugs on the spec files. (I'll 
volunteer as maintainer)

   -- Chris

Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Chris Chabot wrote:
>
> > You can find the latest snapshot spec files at:
> > ftp://www.chabotc.com/pub/pre-gnome2/SPECS
>
> 	Why haven't these not been committed back to CVS?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.