Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm RPMs for Fedora Core 2; peless, please try it out.

[Denis Leroy <denisleroy yahoo com>]

Julian,

Thanks for the clarification. Basically, the gtkmm libraries were part
of FC1 but were *dropped* out of FC2. I don't care if they're in
fedora.us, they're not on the distributed DVD, nor are they on
freshrpms (yet). I actually have more trust in freshrpms than on
fedora.us. But i digress. To summarize :

  :~> sudo yum list | grep gtkmm
  :~>


In a way, it is you guys' job to lobby for the inclusing of gtkmm in
major distribution, just as it's mine to lobby for the cdrdao project.
What you said about the libraries not being distributed because noone
is using them is interesting: i will therefore post on the fedora
mailing list today on behalf of cdrdao-gcdmaster and i will try to
change that. If there's someone in particular i should contact
directly, please let me know. Remember i'm on your side here!

But you guys need to take this issue seriously. After all, isn't the
whole purpose of the gtkmm project to entice people to write gnome apps
in C++ ? Hard to do if the libs remain in obscurity (and so do our
apps), which is a shame because my experience working with gtkmm has
been remarkable, i've never had to file a bug report!

Would it be possible to merge some of the existing tarballs ? The more
packages are required to distribute gtkmm/gnomemm, the more likely
mistakes will be made.

-denis
http://cdrdao.sf.net/


--- Julian Missig <julian jabber org> wrote:
> Fedora Core is a merger of the Red Hat Linux Project and fedora.us, 
> Yes. However, it is not the Official Fedora Core repository (and 
> mirrors) which have gtkmm. Fedora.us hosts BOTH the Official Fedora 
> Core repository and its own "third-pary" repository of "add-on" RPMs.
> 
> Guess where you'll find gtkmm. The fedora.us add-on repository is no 
> more official than freshrpms.
> 
> I don't disagree that the Fedora people are the appropriate ones to 
> talk to, I've done so on several occasions. Quite a few of them are 
> still of the opinion that as a general rule they don't like to
> include 
> libraries if they're not including an app which depends on them. We 
> need to keep pushing them to get gtkmm including in the Official 
> repository.
> 
> My whole point, though, was that the freshrpms versions of gtkmm are
> no 
> "worse" or "better" than what's available in fedora.us -- you have to
> 
> /add the additional repository/ to your sources list either way. You 
> should be familiar with the concept from Debian--it's the same
> thing...
> 
> Julian
>