Re: GNOME 2.2 screenshots (& GStreamer & automake)

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> As for GStreamer having to be in Gnome CVS, there are advantages and
> disadvantages.
> Personally, I think it's a bit irritating that anonymous cvs on gnome lags
> so much.  We still fix a lot of impromptu bugs by request on IRC and it's
> really nice that people can check them out immediately.

There have certainly been problems with the anonymous cvs servers
in the past. However, last I heard it was destined to be taken care of
after the 2.0.0 release. I don't know the current situation though.


> As for it really needing it to be in CVS, I'm not sure about that.  First
> of all, how much of the core and the plug-ins need to be translated ? It's
> a library without much UI stuff in it.

Yes, but players and the like certainly fall into the category
"user-visible stuff that users of localized environments expect to be
localized".


> We have considered moving the player to gnome's cvs, so that could be
> done.