Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-09-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 14:00, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Wed Aug 18 11:05:15 +0200 2010: Sascha, what would take to have a modern GNOME stack on the Debian systems you use? As long as newer GNOME libraries won't break

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-08-21 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Wed Aug 18 11:05:15 +0200 2010: Sascha, what would take to have a modern GNOME stack on the Debian systems you use? As long as newer GNOME libraries won't break existing applications, somebody setting up a repository with updated GNOME packages would

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-08-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:48, Marco Pesenti Gritti ma...@marcopg.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Also, note that sticking to the current dependencies won't allow us to keep jhbuild lean because we'd have to build old stuff for distros such

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-08-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 19:20, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Daniel Drake's message of Fri Jun 18 16:08:34 + 2010: Fair points, but these are all Debian's problems, in my opinion. It falls into the We're innovating, can you keep up? camp. No, they're

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-08-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:05, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 19:20, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Daniel Drake's message of Fri Jun 18 16:08:34 + 2010: Fair points, but these are all Debian's problems, in my opinion.

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:53, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 18 June 2010 05:04, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have to build

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:33, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:28, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:17, Peter Robinson

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 17:10, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 16 June 2010 04:27, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0? The biggest practical downside will be

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On 18 June 2010 05:04, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have to build some more modules in jhbuild for distros such as Debian which won't have it for now in their current versions and that this will raise

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 18 June 2010 05:04, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have to build some more modules in jhbuild for distros such as Debian which won't have

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Daniel Drake's message of Fri Jun 18 14:29:39 + 2010: If you wait for Debian you'll likely be waiting a long time. Please note that we're talking about Sugar development (i.e. sugar-jhbuild) on Debian unstable here, which is usually rather current. Native Debian packages to go

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On 18 June 2010 10:59, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: My view: don't let it hold back. Make the change, hack jhbuild, and put pressure on them to push the package updates. If somebody else volunteers to maintain a sugar-jhbuild that replaces major libraries shipped by

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Daniel Drake's message of Fri Jun 18 16:08:34 + 2010: Fair points, but these are all Debian's problems, in my opinion. It falls into the We're innovating, can you keep up? camp. No, they're my problem because I develop Sugar on Debian systems. Can you afford to leave me

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On 18 June 2010 12:20, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org No, they're my problem because I develop Sugar on Debian systems. Can you afford to leave me behind? Is it worth the advantage of being able to use introspection (or whatever other bleeding edge technology that requires

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Lucian Branescu
The way I see it, activities can't really use PyGI until it's a sugar dependency. The sooner it is available as a dependency on all relevant platforms (debian being one of them), the sooner important things like Browse can start using it. So, how about making some packages for all relevant

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 18 June 2010 05:04, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have to build some more modules in jhbuild for distros such as Debian which won't have

[Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0? The biggest practical downside will be that Sugar 0.90 will only run on next-cycle distros (Fedora 14, Ubuntu Maverick, etc) unless people backport a lot of other packages (not

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Wed Jun 16 09:27:17 + 2010: anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0? What are the required packages (including minimum version numbers)? How stable are the APIs? The upsides

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Hi, anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0? The biggest practical downside will be that Sugar 0.90 will only run on next-cycle

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:17, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Hi, anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:17, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Hi, anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0? The biggest

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:28, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:17, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:28, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:17, Peter Robinson

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Lucian Branescu
+1 PyGI as a working dependency would make Browse work somewhat easier and would assure Browse's future. On 16 June 2010 10:27, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Hi, anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I don't know about RH, but @ litl we're using all-introspected bindings w/ a distro based on Ubuntu Hardy. So backporting shouldn't be too painful, really. (Of course, we're not using the python introspection, so you might have other troubles there.) +1 on introspection in general. Hopefully

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:59, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: I don't know about RH, but @ litl we're using all-introspected bindings w/ a distro based on Ubuntu Hardy.  So backporting shouldn't be too painful, really. glib sounds to me like the most problematic dependency to

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 16 June 2010 04:27, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0? The biggest practical downside will be that Sugar 0.90 will only run on next-cycle distros (Fedora 14,