Change in Yelp dependencies for 3.0
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Change in Yelp dependencies for 3.0
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:27:16 -0600
Hi folks,
I want to officially announce how things are being repackaged for
Yelp 3.0. This is still very much a work in progress, but it will
be in place for the first 3.0 development release. (What are we
calling those? 2.31 or 2.99?)
I will be splitting gnome-doc-utils into two (and possibly three)
packages:
yelp-xsl will contain only the XSLT stylesheets plus any icons
or other data files necessary to convert documents.
yelp-tools will contain the build utilities and the command-line
tool yelp-tool (previously gnome-doc-tool). xml2po should be
split into a separate package, but if that doesn't happen in
time, it will live in yelp-tools.
This split is roughly how Fedora packages gnome-doc-utils already.
Yelp is then being split into libyelp and yelp:
libyelp is a GTK+-based library you can use to easily embed a
help viewer into an application. This has been requested by
a few people in the past. There's a good possibility that
Xfce will base their help viewer on libyelp.
yelp will be the application it is now, with far less code,
because it will mostly be a libyelp shell.
At this time, yelp-xsl already exists in git.gnome.org, although
yelp-tools doesn't yet. The libyelp development is happening on
the yelp-3-0 branch of yelp. It's currently being done in the
yelp repository. I'll split libyelp into a separate package when
it's ready.
What this means: In 3.0, Yelp will depend on libyelp and yelp-xsl.
It will no longer need gnome-doc-utils. It will also no longer
need rarian.
Any packages which use the build utilities in gnome-doc-utils should
switch to yelp-tools. This will be a build-from- git-only dependency
for these packages. I will make sure that yelp-tools is not required
for building from tarballs.
Thanks,
Shaun
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