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
