On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:04:02AM -0400, Kurt Maute wrote: > > So if you have a good reason why I shouldn't commit this, now is the > > time to let me know. Otherwise I'll be committing this sometime this > > week. > > The only reason I can think of is the timing of when the new version of > libxml and libxslt will be available in the various distributions (i.e. > as packages - not compile by hand). There's a lot of updates and fixes > in 14.3, and it might be nice to let folks on current distribution > levels take advantage of those. Of all options I can think of, releasing 0.14.3 with the requirement is the only one I can justify. Without it we cannot say the problem has been fixed and I really don't want to release another version with this bug. The distributions will have to do whatever testing they normally do for libxml2/libxslt and will only be able to include Planner afterwards. How much delay that causes depends on the distro. Gentoo won't be a problem and neither will Fedora (because Daniel Veillard is a dev there). Ubuntu plans to have a new release only in October, so to get things to build there it would be best if the first person to build 0.14.3 from source would create a Personal Package Archive (https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart) with libxml2, libxslt and Planner in it. I have no info on other distributions. Incidentally, I was told on #ubuntu-devel that if I found someone willing to maintain Planner on Ubuntu, I should send them to jcastro and he would help them go through the process of becoming an Ubuntu developer. Anyway, IMHO we should just go ahead with the release. People who can't get it through their distro in time will still have the option to compile and install libxml, libxslt and planner with --prefix=/home/user/local. Regards, Maurice. -- Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26 gentoo org http://www.gentoo.org Gnome Planner Developer griffon26 kfk4ever com http://live.gnome.org/Planner
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