Proposal: Merge gnome2-branch into HEAD

[Derek Atkins]

hi,

Quoting Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel.pacaud at univ-poitiers.fr>:


> I guess you're talking about Goffice Graph.

yes..

> Looking at gnucash-gnome2-dev branch, it seems to use a snapshot of
> Goffice Graph from the last stable version of gnumeric.

Correct..

> You probably want to use the standalone library you can find in the
> goffice module on cvs.gnome.org. It has some crasher fixes. An unstable
> release is planned.

Unfortunately we can't...

> >> > PS: Is it really necessary to require libgnomui-2.8.0? Wouldn't 
> >> > libgnomeui-2.6.1 already be sufficient?
> >> 
> >> I chose 2.8 because that's what ships with FC3.  As recently as a couple
> >> of weeks ago G2 was compiling on FC1 which has libgnomeui-2.4, and I
> >> haven't seen anything committed that raises that bar.  I'll drop the
> >> requirement back down so we can support SuSe 9.2.
> >
> >Hmm, well, GoG has some newer dependencies..  But it shouldn't be 2.8; 2.6
> >maybe, 2.4 at best..  Depends on which version system you're using.
> 
> Current dependencies in CVS are:
> 
> goffice_reqs="
>         glib-2.0                >= 2.6.4
>         gobject-2.0             >= 2.6.4
>         gmodule-2.0             >= 2.6.4
>         libgsf-1                >= 1.11.2
>         libxml-2.0              >= 2.4.12
>         pango                   >= 1.8.1
>         pangoft2                >= 1.8.1
> "
> goffice_gtk_reqs="
>         gtk+-2.0                >= 2.6.0
>         libglade-2.0            >= 2.3.6
>         libgnomeprint-2.2       >= 2.8.2
>         libart-2.0              >= 2.3.11
> "
> goffice_gnome_reqs="
>         gconf-2.0
>         libgnomeui-2.0          >= 2.0.0
>         libgsf-gnome-1          >= 1.11.2
> "

Right -- these deps are "too new" for us to use.  In particular, we'd miss RHEL4
using these deps.  So we can't use that library for our first release.

> 	Emmanuel.

-derek

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