Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Philip Withnall
On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 22:24 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 08:33 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: As Kalev says, we should ensure this still builds with various distros. RHEL7 is fine. Debian stable (Jessie) has 1.14. Fedora has had ≥ 1.13 for a long time. Arch has

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 23 June 2015 at 23:41, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote: Hey Emmanuele, Philip On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 17:08 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: that's usually better replaced by: autoreconf -if || exit $? test -n $NOCONFIGURE ./configure $@ Which isn't shorter, but it's

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 22:38 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: 2015-06-24 9:56 GMT+02:00 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: On 23 June 2015 at 23:41, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote: What if your module uses glib-gettext, gtk-doc, or intltool? I do hope that, if you're using

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, 2015-06-24 9:56 GMT+02:00 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: On 23 June 2015 at 23:41, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote: What if your module uses glib-gettext, gtk-doc, or intltool? I do hope that, if you're using glib-gettext or intltool, you spend a little bit of time to

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 08:56 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I do hope that, if you're using glib-gettext or intltool, you spend a little bit of time to port to upstream gettext instead. Has anyone written a guide on how to do this? I thought intltool was preferred. We definitely need better

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 09:21 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: libtoolize complains about it: libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. But I guess libtoolize is wrong. Is there an upstream bug report? No need. I have libtool 2.4.2 provided by Fedora 22,

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 08:57 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 14:17 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Sadly, it's still in use for AppData XML, but for that (and any other XML-based format) there's itstool, which is also used by the documentation team for the application

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 24 June 2015 at 14:13, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 08:56 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I do hope that, if you're using glib-gettext or intltool, you spend a little bit of time to port to upstream gettext instead. Has anyone written a guide on

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 14:17 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Sadly, it's still in use for AppData XML, but for that (and any other XML-based format) there's itstool, which is also used by the documentation team for the application help: http://itstool.org/ I will wait for someone to replace

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-06-24 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 08:31 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 09:21 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: libtoolize complains about it: libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. But I guess libtoolize is wrong. Is there an