2010/3/7 Shaun McCance <[email protected]>: > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:32 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 15:16 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: >> > I'm going to begin sketching out the content plan for >> > the Platform Overview based on this. If I've forgotten >> > something, please tell me. If you feel strongly that >> > anything I mentioned should not be pushed, speak up. >> >> What about libnotify, libunique and libxml2? They're fairly commonly >> used, but I'm not sure if we should be pushing them. There's still talk >> of including the functionality of the first two in GTK+/GLib, while >> libxml2 is hardly a shining example of a usable or well-documented >> library. > > I think we've generally considered libxml2 to be a system > library lately.
Indeed, although a XML GObject API is long overdue. > For libnotify, I admit I've been actively avoiding the > discussions about notification systems lately, because > they have a tendency to get unpleasant. > > If libunique really can't make it into GLib or GTK+, > then I suppose it's something that should be talked > about. AFAIK ebassi is been working on a GtkApplication class so I think we should avoid adding things ought to be deprecated. >> What about jhbuild, Alleyoop and D-Feet for applications? jhbuild is >> vital for anyone wanting to build GNOME, Alleyoop is in the same vein as >> Nemiver, and D-Feet should be pushed if you're pushing D-Bus. > > I didn't know about Alleyoop, and I agree D-Feet is > a nice tool. I know I ignored our release sets for > the platform libraries, but for the developer tools > it would actually be really nice if I could follow > that release set. > > I think jhbuild is in a different class altogether. > My target audience is people who want to develop with > our platform, not necessarily people who want to work > on Gnome itself. > > -- > Shaun McCance > http://syllogist.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
