RE: A GNOME Bindings release set?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Mike Kestner wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 04:40, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > That does not include non-developer platform API such as 
> > libgnomeprint, or libgda. It's great if you wrap those, but 
> it needs 
> > to be done separately. So if you currently bundle lots of stuff 
> > together in one package, you need to put the extra stuff in 
> a separate 
> > package.
> 
> Why?  I don't understand why we would need to force people to 
> fragment their bindings.  Can you explain the reasoning 
> behind this requirement?

So that people can more clearly identify what is a binding for the GNOME
developer platform, and so that we can more clearly identify whether they
are following the API/ABI rules. Modularity is good.

The number of tarballs used to distribute the source code of a binding
should have very little effect on developers. I encourage people to
encourage people to create umbrella packages on distros to make it easier
for people to get their bindings.

Murray Cumming
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