Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?

From: Magdalen Berns <m berns thismagpie com>
To: drago01 <drago01 gmail com>
Cc: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>, d-d-l <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:25:47 +0100

> Perhaps the ideal solution would be to decouple the dependencies. When
> I'm trying to fix up some mail protocol back end in Evolution, I really
> *shouldn't* need to upgrade my entire system to the very latest
> glib/gtk+ and then upgrade a whole bunch of *applications* which for
> some reason don't work with the new libraries.

Yeah that's the most annoying and time consuming part

Agreed too. I dream of a tool like gemnasium for keeping track of our dependency updates really... It also would be good to remove any unused dependencies - I bet there are a few of those slowing things down.

References:
- How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: Owen Taylor
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: Jasper St. Pierre
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: Owen Taylor
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: Alberto Ruiz
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: Michael Catanzaro
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: Alberto Ruiz
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: David Woodhouse
- Re: How do you hack on GNOME? How can we do better?
  - From: drago01

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