Re: libslab plans

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 11:42 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 23:01 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > Hello control center people, and Owen (for Git expertise), and 
> > Federico (as maintainer of gnome-main-menu) !
> > 
> > So gnome-control-center was one of the few unfortunate users of
> > svn:externals, last month Owen investigated a good list of such
> > users and noted this about gnome-control-center:
> > 
> > |> gnome-control-center/trunk
> > |>     libslab http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-main-menu/trunk/libslab/
> > |> 
> > |>  I don't know the overall situation here. Is libslab used externally?
> > |>  If it needs to be kept like this, could be done as a git submodule;
> > |>  would need jhbuild support for submodules, since you have to
> > |>  git submodule update --init after cloning, and git submodule update
> > |>  after updating. (pretty simple)
> > 
> > JHBuild supports git submodules (it is used by gstreamer), but afaik
> > this solution would require that libslab be moved to its own
> > repository.
> > 
> hmm, I guess that would be the best solution, and use it as an external
> dependency, rather than include it directly in g-c-c code. So CCing also
> Scott Reeves, gnome-main-menu maintainer

ugh, didn't CC Scott, now it is...
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>