Re: GNOME 2.14.3 Released! / GNOME 2.16.0 Beta 2 (2.15.91) Released!

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

Hi Andrew!

I'm cc'ing release-team as we take turns handling releases and so we
all need to be aware of potential problems.  (also cc'ing murray about
the bindings of cairo issue for all languages, since I don't know the
real answer there, and am hoping either he or John can comment)

On 8/10/06, Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com> wrote:
> Elijah,
>
> Something not quite right with:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.15/2.15.91/sources/java/
>
> 'glib-java', 'cairo-java' and 'libvte-java' are missing.

Yeah, missing glib-java definitely looks like a problem.  It appears
there was either a communication disconnect somewhere or we made a
mistake that propagated all over (we missed glib-java in at least all
releases so far this cycle and probably further back; also it's not
listed at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/Bindings).

I really don't know what the answer is for cairo-java.  We might just
consider a valid external dependency.  At least, in the case of c++
and python, they have separate cairomm and pycairo packages which
aren't currently shipped with the release.  I'm not sure if we
intentionally did it that way or we just never noticed and added them
to the release.  :(  Hopefully either Murray or John will know more
and can comment here.

In the case of libvte-java, bindings of desktop modules are not
allowed in the bindings release set, so that one we actually got
right.  :)

> ('glib-java' and 'cairo-java' are both dependencies of libgtk-java, and
> both have been part of the java-gnome set for four release cycles now
> though not on ftp.gnome.org until the last 4-5 months or so since there
> was a screw up on the part of the accounts team which has long since
> been fixed. 'libvte-java' is new as of java-gnome 2.14.x; 'libeds-java'
> is joining the set in 2.16.x)

libeds-java will be similar to libvte-java and won't be eligible for
inclusion in the bindings release unless eds becomes part of the
platform release instead of the desktop release.

> Also, the versions "in" 2.14.3 are really stale. Doesn't really matter,
> but thought I'd mention it.

Doh!

Please make sure to check up on
http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.15/2.15.92/sources/java after the
next release is out to make sure we've got things straightened out.
It may be good to check up occasionally for a few releases after that
as well, as we sometimes (unfortunately) take a little while to iron
these things out.

Thanks for checking up on things and for all your work keeping the
java bindings running.

Cheers,
Elijah