Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> The GNOME 2.0 Release Team is working on a full revised schedule which
> we will annonce soon. In the meantime, we'd like to put together the
> Platform Alpha release.
> 
> ** Packages are due by: Teusday, Sep 26, 19:00 GMT (that's 12 Noon US
> Pacific, 3 PM US Eastern, 8 PM London time)

We would like to include modules 'gail' and 'at-spi', both of which
should be functioning correctly against the current build of gnome-2.

> ** Please email <gnome2-release-team gnome org> when submitting
> packages; your request will most likely be handled by Sander.

I have sent packages to Sander.
 
> ** Packages do not have to be 100% API frozen for this alpha, but when
> submitting your package, please state whether it's totally API frozen,
> and if not, provide the list of exceptions (preferrably in the form of
> a bugzilla query).

gail 0.1 : exports no public API

at-spi-0.1 : not 100% API frozen, but IDL should be frozen 
             barring API bugfixes and API additions.
	We may add additional language bindings in the near term.
	We hope that, since nobody depends on this API yet (except us),
	we can be forgiven some degree of slush in this library.
 
> Please don't wait right until the deadline - get your packages in (or
> tell us the current ones in the pre-gnome2 directory are suitable) as
> soon as possible.

OK, failed on this count.  But with 3 minutes to spare! 

:-/

best regards,

Bill

> If all goes well, we will release on September 28th.
> 
> Here is the current list of platform libraries, as far as we know. We
> will have a public discussion on gnome-2-0-list soon to refine this
> list, and anything we missed can be included in the upcoming Platform
> Beta release.
> 
> atk
> audiofile*
> bonobo-activation
> bonobo-config
> esound*
> gail
> gconf
> glib
> gnome-http*
> gnome-vfs
> gtk+
> libart_lgpl
> libbonobo
> libbonoboui
> libglade
> libgnome
> libgnomecanvas
> libgnomeprint
> libgnomeprintui
> libgnomeui
> libxml2
> libxslt
> linc
> ORbit2
> pango
> xml-i18n-tools
> 
> * - These pacakges are carry-overs from GNOME 1 which have seen little
> change. We may want to remove some of them from the official platform
> for GNOME 2.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maciej
> 
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