Hi, On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Frederic Peters <fpet...@gnome.org> wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> > Did you read http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ExternalDependencies? >> >> I did but then again I've been reading a lot lately so things have >> been slipping of my mind. >> >> > Especially this part: >> > >> > If you want to add a new dependency or want one of the minimum >> > versions updated, make a good case for it on desktop-devel-list (this >> > may only require a few sentences). In particular, provide reasons why >> > it is important to bump the version number, explain any impact >> > (compile and run time) on other modules, and list any additional >> > external dependencies it would pull in as well as any requirements on >> > newer versions of existing external dependencies. Be prepared for >> > others to take a few days to test it (in particular, to ensure it >> > builds) before giving a thumbs up or down. >> > >> > Are you ok with it? >> >> If you mean this decision taking some time, sure but rygel depended >> on these libs when it was proposed for inclusion so I was hoping that >> people have already tested it along with its dependencies. > > Nope, the important part is that *every time* you will want to bump > the version number you will have to ask and wait.
Understood. One question: Next time I do this, should I do it before committing the changes to master or before a release? > Honestly I have no hardware talking UPnP so I didn't get much of a > look, and discovering it comes with the addition of five new modules > to our stack was not the pleasant welcome I expected when I got home > yesterday :) Building rygel and testing it doesn't require any hardware. :) > Anyway, could you file a patch against jhbuild to switch all those > modules to tarballs? Sure, I'll try to do that today. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list