Re: Is the ORBit2 stubs/skels breakage unacceptable?

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 18:04, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> 
> > The stubs/skels stuff is a little unclear, because it's not really API or
> > ABI breakage, but it does mean that you cannot build software based on 2.0
> > and 2.2 on the new ORBit2 without changes to the tarball.
> 
> Oh, the bits I forgot to mention: This *only* affects tarball builds (not
> CVS), because the stubs/skels are not regenerated. Perhaps that is a
> solution to the problem, I don't know. But I do know that you can't build
> the many hundreds of 2.0 and 2.2 based tarballs on ftp.gnome.org and other
> places (consider important apps such as Galeon and Evolution) on top of 2.3
> right now. :-)


Yelp regenerate the skels correctly, so I guess it's a Makefile problem
in some packages.
Btw it would be nice to document somewhere the right way to generate the
skels, every module seem to do it in a different way.

Marco