On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 18:38 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > Hi, > > Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 16:32 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 16:52 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > > > the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some > > > important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" as the maintainer, but he hasn't made a > > > commit to it in more than a year. Is he still the maintainer, or if not, > > > who is authorised to make a new release? > > > > I think most people agree that gnome-common isn't something that should > > be packaged (at least that's true for Fedora/Red Hat distros), as gnome- > > common is a development tool, to build from CVS. I think it should be > > removed altogether from the FTP site, so as not to create confusion. > > > > If somebody is going to compile a program from CVS, they might as well > > check out gnome-common at the same time. > > gnome-autogen.sh / the gnome common macros aren't just useful for things > from gnome cvs. You can also use them in your own gnome programs; > nothing says that you have to have gnome modules from cvs when > developing programs against the platform. IMHO, gnome-common is part of > a sane gnome development environment, and should therefore be released > and packaged.
This is the best reason I've ever heard for packaging gnome-common. Leave Malcolm a couple of days to answer, and if he's away or too busy, James Henstridge is probably the best person to make a new release. James? --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
