Re: beta release of gtk2-perl-xs, please try it out

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

muppet <scott asofyet org> writes:


[...]

> thanks for finding that.  i thought about it once upon a time, but
> apparently didn't do anything about it.
>
>
> how about a brief copyright notice at the top of each source file,
> pointing to LICENSE and AUTHORS files in the top of each module?

Sounds reasonable to me.
 
> then, of course, who belongs in the AUTHORS files?  i'd rather be
> inclusive than picky, but do i list the pygtk project as authors because
> i looked at their code, or just say they inspired it?

If that were for me, I'd mention that their code inspired
gtk2-perl.


[...]

> > Since I'm in newbie mode, I don't go further :).
>
> did you install Glib?  these have been broken into separately
> installable pieces, and thus need to be installed in order, like the C
> libraries.

Yep. I thought the failure would lead to a more explicit message
so I didn't even think about that :/.

> oh, and if you did Makefile.PL to a PREFIX, you need to include that
> PREFIX in your perl path.  instructions to this effect are in the
> READMEs --- if they aren't clear enough, please fix them.

Yes, yes. Indeed, with the proper -I Gtk2-0.20 builds for me. 


[...]

> gtk2-perl-xs isn't "mine", it's ours.  if it was mine i wouldn't be
> asking everybody's opinion on important issues and such, i'd just do it.

Yes.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/