Re: GNOME xdg-app runtime doesn't follow the jhbuild modulesets

[Robert McQueen <rob endlessm com>]

On 12/05/16 11:50, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> For GNOME libraries, it is not recommended to mix different minor
> versions. E.g. it is not a good idea to use GTK+ 3.20 with GtkSourceView
> 3.22. So if an application uses the GNOME 3.20 runtime, it should also
> use the 3.20 version for other GNOME libraries.

I don't understand how such a mismatch would come about "accidentally": 
if you are maintaining/building your app against the 3.20 runtime and 
you know GtkSourceView 3.20 is therefore needed, you should select that 
version to bundle.

The flatpak you've built will never (automatically) be run against 3.22 
unless/until you do some maintainer action to say, here is my 3.22 
release, I want the 3.22 runtime and so therefore will bundle 
GtkSourceView 3.22.

So ensuring that something in a bundle matches something in a runtime is 
not by itself a reason to put something into the runtime - what to 
bundle and what runtime to depend on is an explicit choice of the bundle 
maintainer (and in GNOME we very much hope that bundle descriptions are 
either maintained by the module owner, or generated by the release team 
a la jhbuild, or some combination thereof).

Cheers,
Rob

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