RE: [ANNOUNCE] Many updated RPMs 9/2/99

["Chris Jones" <chris black-sun co uk>]

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Hi

> Actually, it's very hard to do this sort of thing in an RPM's
> post-install because it is dealing with user data. A user

It did occur to me just after I sent my mail that the RPM would have
to replace the file for all users on the system. Doh!

> The only thing to do for an upgrade path would be
> convert-on-the-fly. ("Hmmmm, I can't read this metadata database,
> let me call gnome-converyt-metadta on it").

sounds much more sensible.

> > BTW, are there any plans for scripting language support in GNOME?
I
> > really SERIOUSLY suggest it.
> 
> The idea is to script against CORBA interfaces that programs
> expose. This will be possible once people get their act together

That sounds perfect. It would be nice if this was the sort of thing
that could be made to work independantly of the GUI toolkit you are
using (ie this is another golden opportunity for a bit of GNOME/KDE
integration ;) but I imagine that would be quite hard work.


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