Re: external dependencies; trolling for more feedback, pushing to make it official ; -)

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 9/22/06, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> > Mattias,
> >
> > I believe that you are correct [for the moment]. I took a quick look
> > through apps in GARNOME-2.16.x dependent up dbus. I found that
> > dbus-0.70, required by gnome-power-manager-2.17.1, appears to be good
> > enough for now.
> >
>
> Don't get me wrong, it is of course great to have the latest bugfixes and get
> dbus release candidates widely tested, but if the focus  is on answering the
> question: "can Gnome x.y be deployed on z ?" we should look at the hard
> requirements (as in can not work with a version older than...). Maybe
> we should split the list of external dependencies into required and
> recommended versions. Then we could have e.g. a required dbus-glib
> version of 0.70, but recommend 0.71.

Sounds good to me...