RE: [gtkmm] RedHat and Mandrake RPMs

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> > > From: Guillaume Cottenceau [mailto:gc mandrakesoft com] 
> > > Just wanted to tell you that I just uploaded in "cooker contrib",
> > > the second part of cooker, Mandrake development distribution,
> > > libsigc++-1.2.4 and gtkmm-2.2.1.
> > 
> > Thanks. That's great news. Is there a URL or instructions 
> we can add to the
> > gtkmm download page?
> 
> Cooker is our "unstable" distribution, therefore it's not advised
> to install these packages on a stable version. People should
> either use cooker (then, they just need to "urpmi.update -a &&
> urpmi libgtkmm2.0-devel") or rebuild the package on their distro.

OK. So can we have a a link to the unstable distribution? We would just say
"gtkmm will be in the next release of Mandrake Linux - here is the "beta"".
 
> That said, I'm willing to rebuild a package for our just-released
> 9.1, if you want to host the package, or only link to it from my
> personal page, so that people would just need to download it and
> install it. I've not done so already because I think the use for
> it is too small to add it to our "updates" or "unsupported"
> packages for our 9.1.

Thanks for the offer, but we don't encourage the distribution of 3rd party
RPMs in general.

Murray Cumming
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www.murrayc.com