On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:44:34PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 1/30/06, Christian Hammond <chipx86 chipx86 com> wrote: > <snip> > > It's being used by more and more programs. xchat-gnome is a good > > example. It should be okay as a dependency (though I'm biased ;). > > Okay, let's bring it up on d-d-l suggesting that and see if there are > any objections, brutally beating down any opposition where necessary. > Oh, um, except maybe for that last part. I don't really expect people > to be opposed though. Anyway, John, do you want to handle bringing it > up there? Cool, that sounds good. Hopefully in time, parts of libsexy will roll up into gtk through Ridley. *crosses fingers* > <snip> > > I know that there are counter-arguments to most of these, and I know > > that there's a strong push to move this into GNOME CVS. My opinions in > > this matter are unpopular, but things are set up how I like them now, > > and I know they wouldn't be set up this way if the project moved. At > > some point in the future, I may reconsider this, but not until GNOME > > moves to use Subversion (if that ever does happen). > > Well, the GEP that defines the requirements for inclusion in Gnome > (http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-10.html) states that "If the app > isn't in GNOME CVS, there had better be a damn good reason". Sounds > like you have one. :) > > > So, all that being said, I would like to work with you guys on the > > tarballs and to simplify everyone's lives. But that includes mine :) > > Yeah, gstreamer is somewhat similar. If you could just run > install-module on the server to get the tarballs installed, much like > gstreamer does, that'd be great. Yeah, that'd be fine. I need to learn what needs to be done there, but I'd be glad to set something up for that. > Alternatively, we could just call libnotify and notification-daemon an > officially blessed external dependency (like we do for e.g. cairo), if > that seems to make more sense. Or that works. Up to you guys. :) I'd be glad to set up some infrastructure on my end to get you guys the tarballs and just making that part of the release process. Christian -- Christian Hammond <> The Galago Project chipx86 chipx86 com <> http://www.galago-project.org Did you know that for the price of a 280-Z you can buy two Z-80's? -- P.J. Plauger
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