Re: Countdown for libgii 0.8 and libggi 2beta release

[Stefan Seefeld]

Brian S. Julin wrote:


> Well, the beta release tag is layed down and tarballs have been made, 
> so there is no problem committing more fixes to CVS.  This release
> is only, after all, a codefreeze release before the 2.0final release,
> and that will only be for a couple of weeks.


hang on, with the experience we have, you should not make such assumptions...

>>I feel strongly about these contrib files being inside of libgii and
>>other lib trees.  It will help in tightly coupling these files to the
>>distribution and will make them automaticly included when working
>>with the "dist" targets.  Having the spec file internal to a source
>>tar ball will enable RPM's to be built directly from source tars which
>>effectively eliminates SRPMS.
>>


agreed. It also avoids a couple of frequent sources of errors, and
helps keep the packages in sync with the sources, etc., etc.

Regards,

                Stefan