On Jan 31, 2008 2:26 PM, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also, what about iso-codes? jhbuild seems to be using 0.53, but latest > > is 1.8. Is there any reason to use such an old version > > The idea of depending on old versions of external dependencies is to > ensure that GNOME builds on common versions of distros, which might not > have the newer versions. > > As soon as we know that a newer version of a dependency is available on > fairly recent versions of all the common distros, that would be a time > to increase it's version in our list so we get testing with that new > common version. That's the question that needs to be answered about all > these versions. > > It's also desirable to test newer versions, but we don't want everyone > to be testing/building with a system that is unlike the real world, so > that's a difficult thing to do. >
On this topic, I think it would be cool to have a variation of the jhbuild moduleset that builds against the minimal external deps instead of the recommended ones. I admit that I'm a bit behind the latest advances in jhbuild technology, so ignore me if this already exists. Matthias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
