Re: PROPOSAL: gtk-gnome coordination team
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:44:12PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> I initially Cc:ed the gnome and gtk maintainers on this thread, as a
> courtesy, since it affects them most of all.
>
> I've un cc:ed them now, since they'll follow it on -devel, I'm sure.
BTW
<jpick@debian.org>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
That should be jim@jimpick.com?
> > Don't forget applications with which you simply can't choose on which
> > libgtk you want them compiled (without editing the actual code).
>
> Then we fix them.
>
> The Gtk API won't be changing in huge leaps and bounds, and it will often
> just be a simple recompile, or a few trivial changes.
>
> There will be occasions when it's not that simple, and on those occasions
> the team will make the decision to leave the old version in the archive.
That would be good, plus the upstream authors would love us :)
> > Do you have any information on the number of packages in question,
> > their size, who are the maintainers, etc, etc...?
> >
> > And how hard is this to implement WRT those numbers?
>
> Nope. Lots, I'm sure.
>
> But, I'm equally sure that it is a manageable problem. I mean, we manage
> to release entire synchronised debian versions, don't we?
And that is what I fear. The huge size, and the relatively small
amount of time.
OTOH it's worth of trying.
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