A couple notes regarding some of the new libs, that Ted, Rejon, and I have been talking about...
* We need to think about maybe providing a package for the boehm gc dep. The packages available through rpmseek are for an old version and don't have the cplusplus option.
* Our 0.40 release timeframe is going to be gated by having packages of gtkmm 2.4 and its deps available for all major distros. The package availability for SuSE (and other distros) isn't pretty right now. Hopefully it'll get better within a couple months, but regardless, it would not be wise to release *until* those packages are posted and sufficiently available.
Bryce
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:36:37PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
A couple notes regarding some of the new libs, that Ted, Rejon, and I have been talking about...
We need to think about maybe providing a package for the boehm gc dep. The packages available through rpmseek are for an old version and don't have the cplusplus option.
Our 0.40 release timeframe is going to be gated by having packages of gtkmm 2.4 and its deps available for all major distros. The package availability for SuSE (and other distros) isn't pretty right now. Hopefully it'll get better within a couple months, but regardless, it would not be wise to release *until* those packages are posted and sufficiently available.
I haven't had any problems so far with the boehm gc (libgc-dev/libgc1) and gtkmm 2.4 in Debian testing. Presumably gentoo is also fine. Indeed, I believe 0.39/gtk2.2 poses more of a problem for gentoo users.
I don't think it helps anyone to delay the release. OTOH, we could clearly state that it's a minor release over 0.39, and that users of distributions X, Y and Z may like to wait until the next release.
pjrm.
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