Re: Making GNOME CVS more usable

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

On 26 Mar 2001 16:22:37 +0100, Colm Smyth wrote:
> Hi Matthia,
> 
> Making good use of the standard GNU files is a great way to communicate
> the status and plans for a GNOME project.
> 
> I think the REQUIRES file would be a great addition, especially if it
> included the latest version numbers of those external modules/libraries
> that it is known to work with. Perhaps DEPENDS might be a better name?

If you look at the gnome-core configure.in file, it has a block of stuff
at the top containing all (some?) of the packages and versions that are
required (ok, so I stole the idea from the nautilus stuff, but I've made
a few changes as well).  I use those definitions to fill in the
gnome-core.spec.in file, and we could certainly do something trivially
similar for a "DEPENDS" or "REQUIRES" file.  
    Greg