On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:55 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > I wonder how people who hack on "core Gnome" do it on a day to day > basis. A lot of the time, I do it by finding cases where a dependency on some bleeding-edge Gnome module is *entirely* gratuitous, and just changing configure.ac to fix that "bug". To pick an example, my network-manager-openconnect build tree almost *always* contains a local change along the lines of... --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ if test x"$with_gnome" != xno; then fi PKG_CHECK_MODULES(NM, - NetworkManager >= 0.9.4 - libnm-util >= 0.9.4 - libnm-glib >= 0.9.4 - libnm-glib-vpn >= 0.9.4) + NetworkManager >= 0.9.1 + libnm-util >= 0.9.1 + libnm-glib >= 0.9.1 + libnm-glib-vpn >= 0.9.1) AC_SUBST(NM_CFLAGS) AC_SUBST(NM_LIBS) I *wish* we'd use version requirements properly, rather than bumping the requirement just because there *happens* to be a new version available. -- dwmw2
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