Re: Issues with compiling hal in garnome-0.5.8.1

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

GARNOME uses 0.5.7.1 in the "stable" 2.16.x branch.

The unstable branch of GARNOME is appropriately named "unstable".  The
unstable branch serves as a testbed to identify/resolve problems. 

We do warn the user community

        Note: GNOME 2.17.x is an unstable branch and is assumed to be a
        moving target. Therefore, things in this release may not work as
        advertised.
        
A prime example is gnome-system-tools and system-tools-backends. Not
only do the current 2.17.x versions of these applications not work
properly, they also trash the desktop start up sequence.  

If you live on the bleeding edge you should expect to be cut once in a
while. Caveat emptor.


-Joseph

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On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 12:33 +0000, Peter wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:48:38 +0100, Stef van der Made wrote:
> 
> all snip.....
> 
> FWIW, in the jhbuild, they don't use 0.5.8.1 because there are a lot of
> issues. jhbuild still uses 0.5.7.1. I'm no hal expert, but I was able to
> get it compiled without those errors without the slack patch. However, hal
> 0.5.8.1 caused problems and the hal-runner, required for many things does
> not load properly during hald startup.
> 
> AFAIK, hal has a lot of issues and I personally wish it would just regress
> to 0.5.7 and be done with it.
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> 
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