Re: Libgtop Porting Status

["Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 psu edu>]

Okay, here is what I did for libgtop. Stable libgtop has been ported to
GNOME 2.0 and works fine. It now parallel installs for the most part (I
didn't do parallel install of docs, translations etc) but the libraries and
header files paralell install. The versioning is a bit screwed up since HEAD
is versioned 1.1.x so I decided to make the port leapfrog that and become a
2.0 version. Perhaps HEAD should become a 2.1.x or whatever. The porting
branch is libgtop-GNOME-2-0-port.

Also in getting it to compile I had to copy some of the old gnome m4 macros
into the gnome2-macros directory. I think the macros necessary were
gnome-fileutils.m4 and need-declaration.m4 as well as the
gnome-guile-checks.m4 (this would be needed for gnome-games also). Are there
better solutions for 2.0 than using these macros or should they be added to
gnome-common?

Regards,
Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com>
To: "Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 psu edu>
Cc: <gnome-2-0-list gnome org>; <gnome-hackers gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Libgtop HEAD


>
> "Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 psu edu> writes:
> > Hi. All. I'm a little worried about the state of libgtop HEAD. It seems
that
> > Martin may have left it in a state of instability (at least the readme
says
> > so). Kristian tried compiling procman with HEAD and apparently there are
> > some API changes as procman didn't compile.
> >
> > Considering that noone is maintaining it right now, I suggest that we
> > consider porting the stable branch to GNOME 2.0 and using that for now.
> > Unfortunately I don't know how much work that would entail.
> >
> > So does anyone have an opinion here? Does anyone actually have any
> > familiarity with the code?
>
> If no one else speaks up (maybe the load applet authors?), why don't
> you become the libgtop maintainer for now, since you're the main user
> of the lib?
>
> I'd agree that we should just port the stable branch unless someone
> really knows what's changed in HEAD and what remains to be done to
> stabilize it - since it's using only glib, the port should be trivial.
>
> Havoc