Re: New release of gnome-desktop-sharp ?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 18 février 2009, à 16:14 -0600, Mike Kestner a écrit :
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 22:00 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > could you issue a new release of gnome-desktop-sharp for GNOME 2.25.91
> > ? Current release (2.24.0) doesn't build because gnome-desktop soname
> > changed. You can fix the build with the patch at
> > http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gnome-desktop-sharp/current/SOURCES/gnome-desktop-sharp-2.24.0-libgnome-desktop-major.patch?revision=323215&view=markup
> 
> 
> The patch you pointed to is not build impacting, but would impact
> runtime.  Does anyone know why this soname was changed?  What API was
> removed that created the need?  That sort of change would most likely
> require a corresponding change to the binding, not just an soname change
> in a config file.  

NEWS in gnome-desktop:

==============
Version 2.25.3
==============

Note to distributors: the API break is in GnomeRR.
[...]
        * GnomeRR: add API-breaking error reporting API (Federico Mena
          Quintero)

I don't think we broke the API again after that.

Vincent

-- 
Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.