Re: TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.5.0 Development Release

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:15:25PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Xan Lopez">
> 
> > El lun, 20-10-2003 a las 03:38, Jeff Waugh escribi?:
> > > Good morning all,
> > (snip)
> > > If you're already in the modules list, you know the drill. :-)
> > 
> > So, I wonder what should modules depending already on GTK+ HEAD do.  Just
> > wait without releases until a GTK+ 2.3.0 release is out? If that release
> > takes a lot of time we could get into serious troubles, missing several
> > phases of the release process.
> > 
> > We (Epiphany) already depend on a lot of features from GTK+ HEAD, so I
> > guess it's too late to go back (or at least an incredible PAIN).
> 
> We're basically stuck. I had hoped that aggressive releases were an assumed
> part of the GTK+ 2.4 plan [1], but that doesn't appear to be the case. I
> will ask Owen if we can roll some pre-release tarballs, because it is very
> important that we get all of this new stuff tested up front.

but even if those pre-release tarballs don't happen before 2.5.0, 
compiling against gtk HEAD is a requirement, isn't it? or just compiling
against 2.2 will be fine?

> 
> Thanks Xan,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> [1] http://www.gtk.org/plan/2.4/
> 
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