r22869 - gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32 - Win32 build: Can we get along without libgsf-gnome?

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

>> Great news.  And thanks.  I wonder if we need a periodic reset of that
>> directory?
>
> It would be nice if our build machinery could detect updated versions
> of dependencies and automatically build them when found. Jhbuild does
> this, but unfortunately nobody has yet succeeded in getting it to work
> reliably on Win32.

How does it detect that there's been a new release?  In our case we do
want quazi-stable dependencies, in particular on the stable build.  We
don't always want to build against the latest-and-greatest because they
could introduce regressions.  c.f. the libofx crash we're seeing on
windows.

I thought we did have code that would rebuild a dependency if we upgrade
it explicitly, but perhaps not?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek
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