Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] To the packagers, and to the others

[Iason Antipariotis <iason antipariotis gr>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> You probably know that GnomeMeeting 1.2 is nearly ready and the code is
> nearly frozen. I'm spending my time on OPAL, but the port will perhaps
> be longer than expected.
>
> However:
> - perhaps the DBUS component could still evolve, Julien, you could
> probably comment on this
> - I will receive a "zeroconf" patch permitting to detect other
> GnomeMeeting users on your LAN and to call them using the address book
> - there is still minor work to do wrt the new PC-To-Phone provider
>
> All those changes mean that I will have to synchronize the patches with
> my local OPAL GnomeMeeting. So please don't commit to CVS anymore, let
> me do it.
>
> My question is thus :
> "Given the fact that the OPAL port will be long to come and that there
> are still some features in the oven, could we delay GnomeMeeting 1.2 a
> bit?"
>
> If we delay it, what is the status in *current* (by opposition with
> upcoming) distributions for :
> - DBUS 
> - HOWL (the zeroconf library)
> ?
>
> Should we enable DBUS by default? Is that dependancy common in Mandrake
> 10.1, Fedora Core X, Debian Sarge, SuSE ?
>
> Should we enable HOWL support by default? Is that dependancy common in
> Mandrake 10.1, Fedora Core X, Debian Sarge, SuSE ?
>
> Those 2 new features mean 2 new dependancies for users.
>
> Comments?

SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 have neither dbus nor howl pacages.

Regards Iason