Re: new gnome-common release?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 18:38 +0200, Christian Persch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 16:32 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 16:52 +0200, Christian Persch wrote:
> > > the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some
> > > important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick
> > > <malcolm commsecure com au>" as the maintainer, but he hasn't made a
> > > commit to it in more than a year. Is he still the maintainer, or if not,
> > > who is authorised to make a new release?
> > 
> > I think most people agree that gnome-common isn't something that should
> > be packaged (at least that's true for Fedora/Red Hat distros), as gnome-
> > common is a development tool, to build from CVS. I think it should be
> > removed altogether from the FTP site, so as not to create confusion.
> > 
> > If somebody is going to compile a program from CVS, they might as well
> > check out gnome-common at the same time.
> 
> gnome-autogen.sh / the gnome common macros aren't just useful for things
> from gnome cvs. You can also use them in your own gnome programs;
> nothing says that you have to have gnome modules from cvs when
> developing programs against the platform. IMHO, gnome-common is part of
> a sane gnome development environment, and should therefore be released
> and packaged.

This is the best reason I've ever heard for packaging gnome-common.
Leave Malcolm a couple of days to answer, and if he's away or too busy,
James Henstridge is probably the best person to make a new release.

James?

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>