Re: Opinions on when to start Nautilus porting?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2001-08-25 at 19:18, Christian Schaller wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Darin Adler wrote:
> > I know that Gimp porting to GNOME 2 is already underway. I also know
> > that there are problems in various platform libraries. I also remember
> > from GUADEC that Michael Meeks was particularly adamant that he didn't
> > want me starting to port Nautilus before the libraries were ready.
> > So, folks, any thoughts on when Ramiro and I (and the rest of the
> > gang)  should start porting Nautilus?
> 
> Right away :) Actually I think we need something as heavy as Nautilus to
> begin porting to uncover the problems with the libraries. I mean GConf
> was out for a long long time, but it wasn't until Galeon now starting to
> use it that a lot of issues was found and resolved.
> 
yes, and this will allow us, poor forgotten GNOME applications (such as
gnome-db, which is right now in heavy GNOME 2.0 porting process [1])
maintainers, to sleep a bit better at night, knowing that having
Nautilus being ported there will be a real API freeze soon :-)

cheers
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