Re: ORBit2 release problems [Re: ORBit2 foo ...]

["Vincent Untz" <vuntz gnome org>]

On Tue, September 6, 2005 14:06, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi Tor,
> 	So, Alex just points out this:
>
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315294
>
> 	I think this is the current situation we have:
>
>   - The latest ORBit2 tarball released is ORBit2-2.12.3 from the
>     gnome-2-10 branch
>
>   - There has been no release from ORBit2 HEAD
>
>   - Michael seems to suggest that the plan was to ship GNOME 2.12 with
>     ORBit2-2.12 (i.e from the gnome-2-10 branch)
>
>   - The GNOME 2.12 jhbuild moduleset uses ORBit2 HEAD
>
>   - ORBit2 HEAD has a new macro - ORBIT2_MAYBE_CONST - which the
>     orbit-idl generated code uses
>
>   - Because most maintainers have been using jhbuild, and hence jhbuild
>     HEAD, tarballs released with orbit-idl generated code are using
>     ORBIT2_MAYBE_CONST and won't build with ORBit2-2.12.3
>
> 	Our options are:
>
>   1) Release ORBit2 from HEAD and use that for GNOME 2.12
>
>   2) Put ORBIT2_MAYBE_CONST on the gnome-2-10 branch and release
>      ORBit2-2.12.4
>
> 	(2) is probably the best option because ORBit2-2.12 is the better
> tested codebase.
>
> 	Comments anyone?

I'm okay with (2). However, Sébastien is saying that the ORBit-generated
files shouldn't be in the tarballs. Isn't he right?

Vincent

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