Re: time for a flamewar, or ... what about grdb

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, George wrote:

> OK, time to bring back the good old gnome-hackers tradition, and flame each
> other to pieces.
> 
> OK, Jacob and I have a disagreement about gnome-core and we thought we will
> put it for some public scrutiny.  Besides who doesn't enjoy a good flamewar.
> 
> So, the thing is, should grdb go into gnome-core?
> 
> Background: The grdb author seems to fell of the earth and has not updated
> the package for about half a year, and isn't responding to emails.  AFAIK,
> the author was for including it in gnome-core, last I heard.  Anyway, I
> suppose I'm stuck maintaining this 1300 lines of code baby.
> 
> What is this marvell of modern technology?  Makes motif/athena apps have the
> same colors as your gtk theme.  That is, you netscape no longer looks like
> crap when around other gtk apps.
> 
> Pros:
> * It's really a core sort of thing and makes sense to be together with things
>   like the session manager etc.
> * it's 1300 lines of code, making a new package is a hassle, and keeping
>   up the auto* stuff and making releases and all that crap.  Since I'd be
>   doing that, I'd rather it be done together with another package if possible
>   as that will make it easier (gnome-core already has all the stuff set up
>   and people notice when it breaks and fix it).  Having it be in the
>   gnome-core setup is actually quite simple.
> * We don't really have permission to release it separately I don't think,
>   though I suppose that's not much of an issue.
> 
> Cons:
> * There are none, I'm trying to convince you it's a good idea, why should I
>   point out any bad sides.

I thought the general concensus a while back was for it to go into 
gnome-core (nobody seemed to disagree at the time).

Anyway, I'm for including it. :)

Regards,
Ali