On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:57:16AM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > Daniel Stone <daniel fooishbar org> writes: > > Basically, the platform will contain: > > * xlibs - our xlibs repository, maintained by Keith/Jim; > > * xserver - our X server, maintained by Keith/Jaymz/Eric; > > + probably won't release with first platform > > * Cairo - this thing rocks; > > * D-BUS - pretty fundamental, desktop-wise; > > * other stuff. > > > > I'm in the process of working out what that 'other stuff' should be, so > > if you have any suggestions, please let me know. While stuff should > > preferably be hosted on fd.o, it's not an absolute requirement; and > > while I can RM other stuff if you want me to, I'm not going to take over > > your project, certainly if you don't want me to. > > Along with intltool, perhaps pkg-config and desktop-file-utils should be > released as part of a freedesktop developer-utils release. As for > scrollkeeper, there was interest in dropping it in favor of a better > solution. I think I've managed to co-opt pkg-config into the release. What's desktop-file-utils, and where do I get it? Do you have a link to the discussion(s) on scrollkeeper's replacement(s)? > > Jeff's timely discussion of intltool and scrollkeeper movements sort of > > petered out - guys, what sort of assistance would you be requiring to > > move this stuff over to fd.o? > > Moving intltool to freedesktop CVS should be straightforward -- we just > need to do it. The biggest concern I personally have with moving > packages from GNOME-CVS is that it's a bigger pain for translators on > that server. intltool is (ironically) not translated at all so there's > no problem there, but things like the mime database suffering for not > having a better solution. Hmm, I 'spose translation is an interesting problem, but we're willing to give translators accounts. :) d -- Daniel Stone <daniel fooishbar org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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