On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:22:59PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann was heard to remark: > > [ CC'ing g-wrap-dev, guile-gtk-general. The discussion is about that > since G-Wrap now comes without GLib bindings, the GnuCash folks have a > dependency more, which they seem utterly opposed to ]
No, don't misunderstand/misquote on purpose. You know what this is about. > > My take on this? g-wrap should probably be a standard part of guile, > > or swig, or something, and not a stand-alone package. The complaint was about the proliferation of package dependencies and the linux version of the old microsoft 'dll hell'. Any given day of the week, the mailing lists are dominated by discussion of people who cannot successfully build/install gnucash. That is just plain wrong. People should be talking about something else, and not the difficulty of install. The problem is the proliferation of packages that are poorly maintained and don't have properly defined pkg-config or automake macros or whatever, or are growing oldy/moldy/rancid due to lack of maintainer activity. I beleive that the problem could be solved by merging smaller packages into bigger ones, where maintainers could share the work of upkeep. > - bundling it with Guile: would mean _way_ too slow releases Which is HIGHLY PREFERABLE to NO RELEASES which is what g-wrap has had for 3-4 years now. G-Wrap is broken, busted and no one is maintaining it, and it basically just sucks because of this, and it is the leading #1 poster child for everything that can possibly go wrong with an independent package release. I'd like to avoid re-living all of the mistakes of the past; the problem of packaging being the biggest. (Surely you don't want to hear how 1.3.4 is incompatible with 1.3.1? or that the package is (was?) identified as "g-warp" on debian ... a clever naming twist that makes it impossible to find, or the guile warnings that it currently spews?) --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
