Sync with gnome releases

[Matthew Vanecek]

On 17 Jul 2001 12:44:53 -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:31:21PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:14:14PM -0500, Bill Gribble was heard to remark:
> > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:53:43AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > > > I think that emails like the below offer a cautionary tale about
> > > > failing to sync up to gnome releases.  As things currently
> > > > stand, we have to deal with twice as many RPM's: those built
> > > > with pre-gnome-1.4 libraries, and those built with
> > > > post-gnome-1.4 libraries.  If we sync'ed up, then maybe we could
> > > > avoid some of this .... just an idea ...
> > > 
> > > I just figured out part of what you mean in the above.  I think you
> > > misunderstand; all of the RPMs on our site are for gnome 1.4 ... the
> > > parallel set of RPMs are for *guile* 1.4, which isn't a part of Gnome
> > > officially and so its versioning has to be handled orthogonally.
> > 
> > Uhh, that wasn't the issue.  The original note mentioned a suse gnucash 
> > rpm which required libgal.so.4 but thier gnome-1.4 system had only 
> > libgal.so.8 and thus, the install was failing.
> 
> OK, I was just trying to figure out what you meant by "having to deal
> with twice as many RPMs", and since the only kind of RPM duplication
> we have is the guile-1.3.4 / guile-1.4 kind, I assumed that you had
> gotten confused by the duplicate RPM trees on the ftp site (the naming
> convention isn't as clear as it could be).
> 
> As I understand it, the version of GAL that the gnucash RPMs are built
> against is the "official" gnome-1.4 version, and SuSE is incompatibly
> upgrading without leaving behind a lib from the official release.
> 
> I run an up-to-date Debian unstable system and build gnucash from
> source, and I have only libgal7 installed because there's no Debian
> package for libgal8.  It's very unlikely that libgal8 should be
> considered the "correct" version for us to build RPMs against.
> 

libgal8 is actually the (current) evolution development version of
libgal.  Evolution is constantly making changes/updates (well, I think
its api is pretty stable, relatively speaking). They should be going to
libgal9 before too long. :/  As far as I know, it's not part of the
'official' Ximian Gnome dist.  Looking on their ftp site, they have
libgal6 and libgal7.  That being said, gnucash should still compile OK
against libgal8.  However, if it were my project, I would just make sure
that gnucash compiles against the current main Gnome distribution, and
let 3rd party distributors bring gnucash to their distributions.  I
believe this is already what y'all do?  Ximian does 'updates' on a
somewhat infrequent basis with gnucash and some other utilities.
Perhaps they'd be nice enough to submit their patches back to you guys
(their Web site says they do--whether or not they actually follow
through is something only the gnucash developers can answer).

ciao,
 
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