Re: Using Gnome Vendor

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Mike,

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:04, Mike Newman wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 08:07, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > The fact that the tag is not visible to the user makes the issue
> > less > important, but we have seen it still can cause confusion.
> > Renaming it to > "distributor" can't hurt. This XML file is already
> > out there in the wild, with software (including non-"GNOME official"
> > software) already relying on it. Changing a non user visible,
> > machine-readable XML file schema will not provide a strong enough
> > benefit to offset the pain involved. Then again, and I hate to say
> > it... "patches are accepted". - Jeff
> 
> Filed a bug, attached a patch:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109979
> 
> to make gnome-about understand either 'vendor' or 'distributor'.

	There's no need to worry about backwards compat - the only user of
gnome-version.xml is gnome-about which is part of the same package.

	So, please feel free to commit a s/vendor/distributor/ patch to HEAD.

Thanks,
Mark.