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Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:40:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies
- References: <274233419.20040915234721@familiehaase.de>
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Hello Yaakov,
Gnome 2.8.0 is out.
So I heard. :-)
They list as 'Development Library dependencies':
[snip]
We are missing some of them:
libfam
libgpg-error
libgcrypt
libtasn1
opencdk
gnutls
libgsf
mozilla
I think we can skip libfam and mozilla for now;)
I really wonder how many of the others are needed up front, or only for
one or two applications which come after the desktop is built.
The others (besides libgsf) are already available through my server:
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gnutls/
and also a new version of pth (for libgcrypt) with shared libraries is
available:
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/pth/
I have libgsf on my project page.
I'll try to update my current range of packages this week and then
update and provide the gnutls and others development libraries (using
cygwin-1.5.11 with gcc-3.4).
Wait for announcements of:
libxml2
libxslt
gtk-doc
glib
then you can come with:
libIDL
ORBit2
libIDL is already up to date (0.8.3-2 = 0.8.4); I'll see what I can do
about ORBit2-2.12.0.
and I'll follow with:
intltool
libbonobo
pango
atk
gtk+
Most of these don't have major updates, if I recall, and libbonobo still
needs to be added.
and then we'll try to get GConf up and running...
I think that should be the focus, rather than some of those other
"prereqs" which aren't needed for libgnomeui-2 and the basic desktop.
The rest is listed in the new "GNOME 2.8 Installation Order" list:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/rninstallation.html
Well, I still have a pending ITP on libglade, and I could build
libgnomecanvas and libwnck 2.8 soon I think.
What I see to be a real problem is the speed of the ITP process; I have
generally seen very little response to my Gnome-related packages, and
I've had to ask each time for an exemption due to lack of response. I
know these libraries aren't very exciting by themselves, but just the
Gnome desktop needs about 30 packages to be operational. With the lag
time on these ITPs and upload requests (I don't have upload privileges
on cygwin.com), together with the problems with GConf, we missed 2.6 and
have to start trying with 2.8. I just hope we get everything up before
2.10 (or whatever they decide to call it).
So my question is this: if there's a real commitment to get Gnome into
the distro, what can we do to speed this process up? If you visit my
project site, you can see how much I have (or had from 2.6) ready. I
don't mind doing the work if we can get past this hurdle.
Yaakov