On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 11:33 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:21 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 13:38 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > System Platform > > > =============== > > > > > > The System Platform is the set of libraries or dbus services that are > > > used in GNOME, but are modules belonging to lower parts of the stack. > > > We > > > encourage their use for GNOME applications. > > > > > > This set might change over the years, and API/ABI stability is up to > > > the > > > respective developers. However, we will encourage them to guarantee > > > stability. > > > > > > Candidates for this set include: ConsoleKit, NetworkManager, Xorg, > > > avahi, bluez, cairo, dbus, geoclue, gudev, libxml, pulseaudio, udisks, > > > upower. > > > > How is this different to the existing "External Dependencies"? If it's > > just a name change then it doesn't seem worth doing or mentioning. > > My understanding is that these are the technologies that > we actively encourage developers to use. The external > dependencies are then just those that we happen to use > internally.
Ah. That's a very useful distinction then. Sorry. > This is actually really useful to those of us working on > developer documentation, and especially for me updating > the Platform Overview. If you're in the System Platform, > you're in the Overview. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list