Richard Boaz writes: > If you find it unacceptable to mail you directly with this, fine, > just let me know and I'll post directly there. It's acceptable, but I don't mind getting flamed publicly if the consensus indeed is that my message was rude... So I'm sending this reply to the list. > If Sergei has solved this problem, why has nobody involved with GTK+ > bothered to look to his solution and see if something can be > extracted therefrom that can be folded back into the GTK+ > installation itself? Probably because he hasn't submitted any patch suggestions etc through the proper channels, i.e. bugzilla? (Or has he?) Anyway, I doubt many GTK+ maintainers read this list, or at least, they don't seem to take part in the dicsussions here. And actually, is there anything to fold back? As far as I understand, without actually trying them (I only browsed the README), Sergei's tool is a layer *on top of* the stock GTK+ etc build mechanisms. His tool automates downloading of tarballs, invoking configure scripts with proper arguments, and running make and make install, right? Does he provide any patches to the stock tarball contents, I don't know? So his tool is more like an alternative to a Linux distro's source packages than an alternative to the individual source module's build mechanism. As such, his tool might indeed then be very useful to people who run some proprietary UNIX release that doesn't provide the latest and greatest of GTK+ etc. On the other hand, at least the more popular UNIXes already have their own established "freeware" packaging and distribution channels. Anyway, as I said, I don't mind if he briefly advertises his solution in his posts as long as he writes something relevant to the message he's replying to, too. > I find it much more annoying to continually see the same > installation problems over and over and over, that simply go on > unaddressed by the GTK+ team. If the same problems indeed repeat themselves, has anybody reported them in bugzilla? And perhaps even provided suggested patches? > While we're on good ideas, why not make GTK+ installation more > successful, thus rendering Sergei's tool obsolete; that would make > him disappear, no? Please submit specific bug reports to bugzilla. (Note that "I don't really know what I am doing and have mixed up everything and can't get anything to work" is not something GTK+ maintainers can do anything about.) --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
