Re: Mandatory dependencies notification

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 10:00 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> if you're maintaining a project hosted under GNOME that is part of
> the
> core jhbuild modulesets or is build automatically by Continuous,
> could
> you please remember to notify the maintainers of jhbuild and
> Continuous about it *before* you merge code that adds a new
> *mandatory* dependency? This way we can minimize the build breakages
> for everybody, especially newcomers.

You really need to do this when adding any dependency, unless it's an
automagic dependency that gets enabled or disabled automatically based
on whether the dependency is already installed, as otherwise both
Continuous and jhbuild will break... and you shouldn't be using
automagic dependencies. Conclusion: need to do this for optional
dependencies as well.

Michael