On 6/17/2012 6:19 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote:
On 17.06.2012 18:06, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Uli Schlachter <psyc...@znc.in> wrote:
On 17.06.2012 12:31, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
[...]
Some of the dependencies of the lgi code cannot be met at all on my aging
Ubuntu installation.
[...]
/etc/lsb-release says:
"Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"
Hm. Wikipedia says Ubuntu 10.04 is supported until 2013-04. That's still quite a
while. Sounds like we shouldn't release 3.5 before then. ;-)
Awesome already used Pango before and Pango used gobject before. The only new
dependency (besides lgi) should be on gobject-introspection. Version 0.10.8 was
releases in May 2011. That's a little more recent than I had thought. However, I
have no good idea what could be done about this.
I don't know what's new in gobject-introspection 0.10.8 and thus can't say why
older versions don't work.
Sounds like someone (I?) should write a mail to lgi upstream and ask for
details...
No need to, upstream is here and listening :-)
Ubuntu Lucid supports only 0.6 series of gobject-introspection. Thats
pretty bad, because so many bugfixes, many useful API additionas and
even a few API/ABI changes were done since then. Current lgi code
basically depends on gobject-introspection>=1.30, with hacks added here
and there to support goi>=0.10 version. I was hoping to nuke those
hacks in the next release, but it looks that I'll have to keep them.
As for supporting 0.6.x series; almost definitely impossible with
current lgi sourcebase. I'm having my small personal summer of code
project, rewriting a lot of lgi internals, and (for unrelated reasons)
it should lessen the dependency on exact version of
gobject-introspection, so that 0.6.x could be usable (with some
additional effort). But don't hold your breath, it might take a few
months before I get it into the releasable shape.
As Uli said above, installing newer gobject-introspection into the $HOME
will probably not work, I'm afraid that .typelib files (coming from
other packages) will not be compatible with it. The only solution would
be to build locally (into your $HOME) the Gnome stack parts up to pango
(which would also include gobject-introspection). Gnome's jhbuild[0]
makes this quite a painless experience (at least for me it was).
sorry for not so good news,
Pavel
[0] http://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable
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