Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 11:33 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:21 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 13:38 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > System Platform
> > > ===============
> > > 
> > > The System Platform is the set of libraries or dbus services that are
> > > used in GNOME, but are modules belonging to lower parts of the stack.
> > > We
> > > encourage their use for GNOME applications.
> > > 
> > > This set might change over the years, and API/ABI stability is up to
> > > the
> > > respective developers. However, we will encourage them to guarantee
> > > stability.
> > > 
> > > Candidates for this set include: ConsoleKit, NetworkManager, Xorg,
> > > avahi, bluez, cairo, dbus, geoclue, gudev, libxml, pulseaudio, udisks,
> > > upower. 
> > 
> > How is this different to the existing "External Dependencies"? If it's
> > just a name change then it doesn't seem worth doing or mentioning.
> 
> My understanding is that these are the technologies that
> we actively encourage developers to use. The external
> dependencies are then just those that we happen to use
> internally.

Ah. That's a very useful distinction then. Sorry.

> This is actually really useful to those of us working on
> developer documentation, and especially for me updating
> the Platform Overview. If you're in the System Platform,
> you're in the Overview.


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