Re: [Gimp-developer] configure: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Missing dep: appstream-glib >= 0.7.7

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2018-07-24 06:04 AM, Jehan Pagès via gimp-developer-list wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
[snip]
> For the record, I just checked current code and actual minimum dep
> (relatively to the functions I use from this lib) would be 0.6.7.
[snip]
> Also this is development code. It is expected to get bumpy.

The addition of appstream-glib has been the biggest bump to date. When 
dependencies get bumped I just download, compile, and install the new 
version of the dependency. That hasn't worked with appsteram-glib.

This new dependency wants some support for RPM packages on a system that 
doesn't use RPM for package management. It also needed another dependency 
that I needed to compile but that needed yet another package. At that point 
I gave up trying to satisfy the need for appstream-glib.


What is appstream-glib and how is it going to be used in GIMP?

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