Re: new gnome-common release?

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi,

Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 �6:32 +0100, Bastien Nocera a �it :
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 16:52 +0200, Christian Persch wrote:
> > the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some
> > important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick
> > <malcolm commsecure com au>" as the maintainer, but he hasn't made a
> > commit to it in more than a year. Is he still the maintainer, or if not,
> > who is authorised to make a new release?
> 
> I think most people agree that gnome-common isn't something that should
> be packaged (at least that's true for Fedora/Red Hat distros), as gnome-
> common is a development tool, to build from CVS. I think it should be
> removed altogether from the FTP site, so as not to create confusion.
> 
> If somebody is going to compile a program from CVS, they might as well
> check out gnome-common at the same time.

gnome-autogen.sh / the gnome common macros aren't just useful for things
from gnome cvs. You can also use them in your own gnome programs;
nothing says that you have to have gnome modules from cvs when
developing programs against the platform. IMHO, gnome-common is part of
a sane gnome development environment, and should therefore be released
and packaged.

Regards,
	Christian