-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2010 09:02 AM, Colin Walters wrote: > I just had a discussion with Owen about the state of F14+gnome-shell, > and wanted to give an update on why we decided not to try updating it > from the current state (last updated Jul 13), and concentrate on F15 > instead. > > So most of the development has been happening in git/jhbuild, and we > haven't even managed to get rawhide updated due to the XULRunner > changes (work on rawhide is proceeding now, > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622896 for the curious). > > Now, multiple things would need to occur for F14: > - Separate clutter 1.4 parallel install package > Impact on critical path: None. Sort of ugly is the only thing. > > - Updated GTK3 package > Impact on critical path: Low/None (some things in F14 oddly > require gtk3 that shouldn't, like seed...needs investigation). But > we'd *also* have to look at either updating packages like > gnome-desktop3 (or removing them). > > - gobject-introspection 0.9.5+ > This implies simple rebuilds of a lot of packages for the > lookaside GIR/.typelib data, which is straightforward. However, > updating to this version also implies pulling in a new pygobject, > which has had quite a bit of code changes. Upstream feels confident, > but it's just one thing that weighs against an update (a possible > alternative path is to disable introspection from pygobject). > > So the alternative here is: > - Add a warning/note to F14 gnome-shell that it's old and to: > - Make it easier and better to run F15/rawhide. Which involves > fixing the problems there, and scripting the rpm/yum foo better to > make the switch, and being a lot more aggressive about preventing > regressions. What about hosting a repos.fp.o for gnome-shell in F14? - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyjaxQACgkQ4v2HLvE71NV44ACdEn2FabR9QMNqXcMxTgf1MeIC FMgAoIM8/kzuDtUca+3b5wlfcIMbvWDc =NUXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
