Re: gnome-libs HEAD building

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> writes:

> On 26 Oct 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> writes: 
> > > Noooooooooooo :)
> > > 
> > > Or rather, I hope the basic problems with the idea get fixed before
> > > jumping head-first into using it...
> > > 
> > 
> > You have yet to present what the problems are dude.
> 
> I discussed them with Martijn a while ago on IRC, and he seemed to just
> silently nod his head, so I assumed that they would get actually fixed.
> This does not appear to have happened. So, this was more a shout out to
> see what happend with Martijn and other pkgconfig developers than anything
> else.

While Martijn has done a great job pushing pkgconfig along, it should
be noted that the current pkgconfig doesn't bear all that much
resemblence to the first version he put up based on James's work.

Havoc rewrote it in C a few months ago with using a new config file
format that was mostly my design. So any problems in the older
pkgconfig may not be there now, any problems in the current pkgconfig
are most likely our fault.

Please send your problems to gnome-devel so everybody can see them and
comment on them.

Regards,
                                        Owen