Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>
>> > Hrm, then what's the point of the development tarballs? :-)
>>
>> providing snapshots, just like glib and gtk+ :-)
>>
>> but the API might change during the development cycle, so you should be
>> aware of that. as far as I know, jhbuild does not build glib and gtk+
>> from tarballs either.
>
> Clutter is an external dependency, while glib and gtk+ are part of the
> platform.  Policy (and experience) tells to build external dependencies
> from released tarballs.

It seems that we're well on our way to making Clutter part of our
platform so this formal distinction seems relatively meaningless at
this point.


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