-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Six weeks ago I asked about the status of GTK+, and was told then that > "as of maybe 2 weeks ago, what's left is individual packages that need > special attention, so it's time to get maintainers involved". > > How is the progress of this going? Is there any list of affected > packages? Have the maintainers been given the information they need to > make the transition? > > I apologize if I sound like a broken drum on this, but I am very much > desiring to see a current GTK+ in Fink. The current version is simply > too old for a lot of development work. > > - The list of affected packages is "gtk+2, gtk+2-shlibs, and anything that depends on them".
We had the Leopard upgrade in the interim, which was a gigantic PITA that needed the developer who is the primary person dealing with the GTK & friends upgrade (which helps keep the modifications to several hundred affected packages coordinated). And then he had to divert over to fixing the package database on the website (now done). He's back to working on it now. Basically how it's being done is a lot of automatic building in a clean Fink tree (time-consuming) to check on dependencies. Things get updated, new versions of packages get integrated into the mix, .... There are maintainers who are using the pangocairo tree and providing feedback, too. The project decided _not_ to go with "It's too hard to upgrade this. Just remove Fink and start over" in favor of an upgrade-in-place approach. The penalty for this is that there are tons of intertwined dependencies that have to be worked out simultaneously. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHYdvPB8UpO3rKjQ8RAjRMAJ9uO6972rSMvRw+WnQU5OL3XJjjIgCfd70c +guCbJhechIMmdukkZMsLy4= =saQT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
