Re: libslab plans

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 23:01 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Hello control center people, and Owen (for Git expertise), and 
> Federico (as maintainer of gnome-main-menu) !
> 
> So gnome-control-center was one of the few unfortunate users of
> svn:externals, last month Owen investigated a good list of such
> users and noted this about gnome-control-center:
> 
> |> gnome-control-center/trunk
> |>     libslab http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-main-menu/trunk/libslab/
> |> 
> |>  I don't know the overall situation here. Is libslab used externally?
> |>  If it needs to be kept like this, could be done as a git submodule;
> |>  would need jhbuild support for submodules, since you have to
> |>  git submodule update --init after cloning, and git submodule update
> |>  after updating. (pretty simple)
> 
> JHBuild supports git submodules (it is used by gstreamer), but afaik
> this solution would require that libslab be moved to its own
> repository.
> 
hmm, I guess that would be the best solution, and use it as an external
dependency, rather than include it directly in g-c-c code. So CCing also
Scott Reeves, gnome-main-menu maintainer
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>