Re: API freeze release ... status so far.



On 03 Aug 2001 08:13:52 -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Sander,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > Suprise!!! Starting with a big platform change 4 days before supposed
> > API freeze broke lots of things.
> 
>         The change is not in fact that large - and amounts mostly to a
> bunch of seds. It took me only ~ 2 hours to port all of the relevant
> modules to bonobo-activation, and only ~ 1 day to get the patches approved
> [ mainly due to people not being awake ].
> 
> > OTOH we really need to make sure everything freezes and is released
> > ASAP. The reason there is a thing called 'library beta 1' scheduled to
> > happen in 5 weeks time is so as much as possible of non-API bug fixing
> > could be pushed to post-freeze and make it easier for people to
> > participate.
> 
>         So, I see priorities as glade / libglade, printing and gal / eel,
> and any other misc. foundation libraries we need.
> 
if by foundation libs you mean any kind of libraries, can I propose to also include
in this lot libgda and libgnomedb? I mean to add them as foundation libs
of the
GNOME platform.
They are now very stable, based on Bonobo (both) and everything is ready
to start porting them to GNOME 2 as soon as the freeze happens.

cheers

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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> - <rodrigo ximian com>
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