Re: Reminder : do NOT hardcode deprecation flags in tarball / new tarballs NEEDED

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 19:05 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Since I'm the release team member taking care of 2.29.92 release, I'm 
> going to rant again against modules which are hardcoding deprecation 
> flags in their configure.in (or Makefile.am), even when building from 
> tarballs. Please, avoid that, it is killing us, since many released 
> modules are not building with latest gtk+ 2.19.7 (new deprecated added). 
> If you want to use deprecation flags, check in configure.in if you are 
> in a git checkout and enable them in that case, but do not enable them 
> by default in tarballs.

I assume the GNOME_MAINTAINER_MODE_DEFINES macro is our preferred means
of addressing this since it exists in gnome-common?  It uses maintainer
mode to determine whether to enable deprecation flags.

Matthew Barnes