On Thursday 03 February 2005 21:12, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I started to port some code in GIMP CVS to functionality > that is only in glib-2.6. So we are now depending on glib >= 2.6.0. > glib-2.6 has been packaged for most distros for quite a while so that > dependency shouldn't cause any problems. > I should note that Mandrake 10.1 (much less older releases) does not ship with glib-2.6. I was able to build the glib-2.6 SRPMS from Mandrake Cooker without too many problems, though. > Mitch, me and probably others already have some changes pending that > would introduce a dependency on gtk+-2.6. So far we have usually > waited until a package reaches debian testing before depending on it. > Since gtk+-2.6 only just yesterday appeared in debian unstable, this > would mean waiting at least another nine days. Now I wonder if that's > worth it. I'd rather ask you to speak up if you want to hack on GIMP > CVS and a dependency on gtk+-2.6 would cause you serious problems. If > noone objects, we will bump the minimum required gtk+ version this > weekend. > I haven't tried to compile gtk-2.6 for Mandrake yet. At the worst case, I can install it from source using ./configure --prefix=. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxx Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Knuth is not God! It took him two days to build the Roman Empire.
