Re: Putting the 'Mono debate' back on the rails

[Mike Kestner <mkestner novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 09:33 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:

> > We bind six libraries that fall in the desktop set currently.  I cannot
> > split out three of them because the APIs are included in gnome-sharp.dll
> > currently, and to split them out would break API compat for my users.
> 
> Are you saying that parallel installation of libraries is impossible
> in the mono world?  I don't see how this has to break API
> compatibility for your current users.

Parallel-installation is a compatibility break.

I think I've come up with a package division that would be acceptable
from a stability standpoint for us and still satisfy this "no desktop
libs" requirement people seem to be dogmatically enforcing.

We could split gtk-sharp into two packages:

gtk-sharp-2.10.0 would keep glib-sharp, pango-sharp, atk-sharp,
gdk-sharp, gtk-sharp, glade-sharp, and gtkdotnet.  I would propose this
altered package for inclusion in the Bindings release set.

gnome-sharp-2.16.0 would get gnome-vfs-sharp, gnome-sharp, art-sharp,
rsvg-sharp, vte-sharp, gconf-sharp, and gtkhtml-sharp.  I would propose
this package for inclusion in the Desktop release set.

The division should satisfy all the rules.  There is no rule against a
platform binding living in the Desktop release set.

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Mike Kestner <mkestner novell com>