Re: Tinderbox for GNOME 2 development

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes: 
> 	Sigh, as long as the tinderbox is only used to inform humans, to
> send mail to people to ask them to fix it sometime. eg. bonobo's
> message-of-doom says:
> 
>   * This software _will_ be breaking binary and source compatibility
> frequently
>   * Furthermore it will not compile for long periods of the week, and this
> is a feature.
> 
> 	Do we really need a tinderbox at this stage ?
> 

While noting that GConf doesn't build at the moment, ;-)

Remember that ALL the libs have to be frozen by July 29. But any libs
that depend on a given lib (call it X) can't start development until X
is kept at least compiling most of the time.

I would say that Tinderbox can begin by building GTK at least, for
now. As other libs are willing to commit to a working build and allow
higher-in-the-dependency-chain libs to begin development, we add those
libs to Tinderbox.

We need to coordinate between the libgnomeui, bonobo, gtk,
etc. maintainers to be sure the non-compilation phase of development
for each lib doesn't mess up development of dependent libs.

Havoc