Re: Add libggz and ggz-client-libs to garnome

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 19:21 +0100, Andreas Røsdal wrote:
> libggz, ggz-client-libs have been accepted as external dependencies to 
> GNOME 2.22, could these please be added to garnome? 

Ah, you're fighting on multiple fronts. :)


> Specifically, gnome-games will begin to require these libraries in the 
> 2.21.x development cycle.

Actually, we already pondered including these -- very briefly though,
due some serious lack of time currently.


> For more info, please see:
> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyone/ExternalDependencies

However, as a general note: External dependencies are just that.
External. They are not itself part of GNOME, although any GNOME app is
free to depend on them.

As point in case, have a look at that page. Check the mentioned deps,
and where they live inside GARNOME. If at all. There will be no way
we'll ever include X.org in GARNOME, for example. ;)  Python is another
example of external dependencies that need to be shipped by your distro.

Everything else lives in bootstrap/ or freedesktop/, shipped by GARNOME
to ensure a sane build -- pretty much either voluntarily, or to support
distros and versions older than "3 months". *sigh*


That said, ggz most likely will be included into GARNOME soon. For above
mentioned reasons. Pick the one you like. ;)


Andreas, thanks for the heads-up. Most appreciated! :)

  guenther


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