On Jan 29, 2008 12:32 PM, Benjamin Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked into jhbuild and external deps are always tarballs. So I was > wondering if there was a policy against depending on development > versions for external deps. It's a bit more work for jhbuilders after > all. > Otherwise I'd update the modules to depend on Swfdec git until 0.6.0 is out.
Yes, this was a very deliberate policy decision. Tracking svn/cvs/git/whatever of external dependencies made gnome essentially unbuildable a few cycles back. It wasn't just SoC students spending their first three *weeks* trying to do nothing but get Gnome to build, we had lots of developers saying they couldn't complete the task either and couldn't test their own module against current svn of other modules. Despite updating my build several times a week, even I was struggling to keep things built. It was a nightmare. But, as you control swfdec, you can handle this situation relatively easily: release early & release often is your friend. I don't think there would be any problem bumping the external dependencies page every week or even every day if you need it to depend on whatever new version of swfdec you have released (of course, we want someone to verify svn still builds before bumping, but beyond that I'm not opposed to bumps leading up to swfdec-0.6). Thanks for the awesome work. Hope this response helps, Elijah _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list