Re: external dependencies

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

OK... I will am willing to exercise hal-0.5.8 within GARNOME-2.16.x.
Where do I find PolicyKit and libvolume_id?


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 21:36 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus
> > that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies,
> > and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in jhbuild.
> > 
> > I see that we already do that for hal, with the hal-0-5-7 id. 
> > fontconfig 2.4.0 has just been released, so I'd propose that we do the
> > same for fontconfig now, and then follow with dbus, as soon as 1.0 is
> > released (which should be soon now).
> 
> This makes sense to me. Btw, I just put out a new HAL 0.5.8 just minutes
> ago. It's been pretty bad this cycle [1] with taking 6-7 months for a
> release to appear. So, since I really don't want to repeat that, HAL
> will now move to a 3-month release cycle so I expect to put out HAL
> 0.5.9 sometime in December. Note that we will also grow a hard PolicyKit
> dependency as well. However, PolicyKit will be useful for GNOME outside
> the context of HAL, but that's another discussion.
> 
> So, what's the procedure going to be for requesting GNOME to depend on a
> new HAL release? I mean, when is the latest point in the release process
> that modules in GNOME can require new HAL releases - up until now, I
> just worked with the respective GNOME module maintainers to figure this
> out, perhaps we want to formalize this a bit. 
> 
> Also, this will certainly make it easier on the distributions since they
> won't have to ship HAL git snapshots or cherry pick patches just to get
> the latest GNOME release working.
> 
>     David
> 
> 
> [1] : bad excuse time: I spent my work hours mostly on non-HAL stuff and
> figured out I needed to write PolicyKit too. It seems I'll be getting
> some more work time to look after the HAL + related bits stuff in the
> future though so stay tuned.
> 
> 
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