Re: GNOME 2.10 module proposal: Galago

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Nat Friedman">

> > Is it worth being part of the GNOME release, then? Perhaps only the
> > GNOME specific modules should be?
> 
> To me the issue is whether GNOME can depend on Galago.  I think the only
> official/explicit way we have to add an external dependency like that is

Weeeeeeell, we do depend on a bunch of stuff outside GNOME in the Desktop
release, such as Mozilla. But we can only do so because we don't rely on
API/ABI stability, or their release cycles, etc. (Epiphany works with so
many versions of Mozilla/Firefox it's not funny.)

Do we want Galago in the GNOME Platform suite? Then it'll need to be in the
Desktop suite for a while first.

Will the non-GNOME parts of Galago be in the freedesktop.org Platform? Once
we trust the freedesktop.org Platform release process, we can depend on it
instead of bringing Galago into the GNOME release cycle.

There are a few possible solutions - gotta figure out what we want to
achieve first.

- Jeff

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