Works for me. Ed
2008/5/28 Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:29:25AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> >> Anyone object in principle to dropping the gettext requirement >> back to 0.16.1, or to temporarily dropping the GTK+ requirement >> back to 2.8? John, I think you probably have the strongest >> feelings about this, so please let us know. (I have not looked >> at Ed's patch yet, so I'm not asking for comments on how he tried >> to do these things, only on the proposal to do so somehow.) >> >> How about we do this: >> >> By default, the dependency requirements stay as they are. But we add >> a switch to ./configure; let's call it --allow-old-deps which turns >> off, or relaxes the dependency checking. And we add a Caveat Emptor >> entry to the release notes. >> >> This way, I think the necessary changes to configure.ac etc will be >> minimal, and a lot easier to maintain. > > This sounds reasonable to me. > > Ed, would this be enough to make you feel happy doing development > on Debian stable? > -- > "There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. > And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. > I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." > --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_ > _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
