On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Luca De Marini > <luca.darkmas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/4/9 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> >>> and please, let's try to get these things upstream into debian, ubuntu >>> and others. At least the base libraries and e17 itself. >>> >> >> Of course. We will be in upstream, I'm sure of it, when we'll be stable. For >> Ubuntu at least. I don't know debian policies but Ubuntu won't host >> officially our E17 packages unless they are stable. So, whenever libraries >> will become stable, we'll be able to ask Ubuntu to host them in their >> officla repos and time by time, the entire E will hopefully be in Ubuntu :) >> Don't worry, we'll strictly collaborate, if you wish, to transform this into >> reality. > > often we become unstable, with things like moving ecore/evas to eina > data types and major refactors, but other than that it works, maybe > better than most software that is labeled as "stable". Also, it is not > true that everything in Ubuntu/Debian is stable and all, you can see > how many packages break now and then, how many request you to export > weird -DI_KNOW_THIS_IS_UNSTABLE_API and all. >
They break the interfaces at a slower pace, though :) That's IMO the sole reason for e17 not being in ubuntu: it's hard to push it to a stable release knowing that you'll have to support it for a long time, during which at least half a dozen API changes will happen. Otherwise, I would have uploaded the whole stack in ubuntu a long time ago (and as said on IRC, I plan on uploading what's currently in debian experimental to ubuntu when it's possible) As for the schedule, I think it's better no to plan on the packagers being able to deliver packages within a day. You probably know there are a lot of packaging rules (even if the SVN packaging doesn't really care about them, as it would be a pain, like packages renaming when there's an interface break and so on), and updating the packages may take time. I think we could just skip the first build, that will give some more time. Cheers, Albin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
