Re: libgnomekbd: dead man walking

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

Ok. If you have a team of zombies, let them walk till 3.8

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Sergey Udaltsov
> <sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi ppl
>>
>> With the recent developments related to input methods, libgnomekbd is
>> effectively redundant. The only useful bit remaining is the layout
>> preview widget. IMNSHO those bits can be quickly integrated into g-c-c
>> without breaking things. I am not aware of any other project that
>> would use libgnomekbd. If you know about such dependency - please
>> please raise your voice!!!
>>
>> I discussed that with Rui, he generally agrees but there is valid
>> concern about dependencies.
>>
>> The code will say in git (master and 3.4 branch), I just think the
>> library should not be a part of 3.6 release - and there will be no
>> further development.
>>
>> Anyone has any comments? Technically that should be a very cheap operation.
>
> Hey Sergey,
>
> thanks for bringing this up. Given what Bastien said, I guess it will
> be best to do this dependency cleanup early in 3.7, and keep
> libgnomekbg around for the 3.6 release. It will certainly not be the
> only 'dead man walking' in our moduleset...
>
>
> Matthias