On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:48, Marco Pesenti Gritti <ma...@marcopg.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> Also, note that sticking to the current dependencies won't allow us to >> keep jhbuild lean because we'd have to build old stuff for distros >> such as Fedora. > > I think Sascha is right that a jhbuild which supports a GNOME 3.0 > based Sugar on old distributions would be unmaintainable. It will be a > lot of effort and it will break most of the time anyway. We need to > move in the opposite direction (i.e. getting rid of jhbuild completely > as soon as possible). > > But to me that means we need to move on and let distributions keep up. > If Debian doesn't support a modern stack developers will either deal > with the problem themself (by building stuff from source, custom > packages etc) or use a different distribution. We just can't do > anything about it and it should not be our focus anyway.
I have no problem myself in this course of action, as I have switched distros before because of Sugar and would do it again. But I think some present contributions do have problems? > Something to consider is a general API break while we are moving to > introspection and gtk 3.0, which might need a longer development > cycle, in parallel with bare maintenance of the stable stack. A > slightly longer transition period should help everyone and breaking > (err fixing) as much as we can at the same time will make sure we are > able to support the new API for a longer time. Hmm, do you have more details already? Thanks, Tomeu > Marco > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel