On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:49 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > I'm going the conservative way and releasing with > 2.16.x Olav said he already did the work to include the current version. Why don't you just leave that alone? > As far as I understand it, 4.0 is a development version that > will lead to a stable 4.2. Don't you get it? java-gnome 4.0.x is the *only* version. It has been the only version for over two years now. The previous generation of the library is *abandoned* and *unsupported*. Several distros have already stopped shipping it entirely. Leaving the old libraries in GNOME's bindings list is as if you were shipping GTK 1.2 as the current GTK, and makes GNOME's release team look stupid. I've been trying to help you avoid that. Since I am the maintainer of java-gnome [both 2.x, because it got dumped on me when all its authors evaporated in 2005 and I attempted to keep the project alive for a year and a half before likewise giving up on it, and of 4.0, because I realized that a rewrite was necessary to save the project, actually pulled it off, am its primary author, and actively facilitate a community around it] I'd like to think I'm in a position to make decisions about these things. That choice is that java-gnome 2.x is beyond end-of-life and abandoned. Announcements were made in GNOME 2.16.3 and GNOME 2.17.5 that the library was being deprecated and to immanently be removed. It has not seen any work since 2006. Its bugs have been closed OBSOLETE. Our community has moved on. Done. One last time: java-gnome 4.0.6 are the only Java bindings for GNOME supported by the community around the java-gnome project. It is the current version, and should be listed as the Java bindings for GNOME 2.22. Thank you. AfC Maintainer java-gnome -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Managing Director Operational Dynamics Consulting, Pty Ltd Sydney +61 2 9977 6866 New York +1 646 472 5054 Toronto +1 647 477 5603 London +44 207 1019201 We are an operations engineering consultancy focusing on strategy, organizational architecture, systems review, and change management procedures: enabling successful use of open source in mission critical enterprises, worldwide. http://www.operationaldynamics.com/
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