r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.

[Derek Atkins]

We do not have a build farm yet..  Now that we have the vmhost we
could.  We could also set up 'mock' to build for various RPM-based
systems.  It might be interesting to set up tinderbox, but I have
no experience with that.

-derek

Quoting Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>:

> I've never looked into the issue.  Is there a build farm we can use 
> with different versions of linux distros so that we can check the 
> build and limitations?  Otherwise, we're limited by what developers 
> and testers have.  I suppose VMs could help with this.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>
> Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:07:40 AM
> Subject: Re: r18041 - gnucash/trunk - Merge webkit branch into trunk.
>
> Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> writes:
>
>> Herbert Thoma schrieb:
>>> Derek Atkins schrieb:
>>>> Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's the one combination I wasn't able to test (gtkhtml that 
>>>>>>>> doesn't use
>>>>>>>> gtkprint).  What platform are you on?
>>>>>>> SuSE 10.3 (x86_64).
>>>>>> What version of gnome, gtk, and gnome-print do you have?
>>>>> pkg-config --modversion libgnome-2.0
>>>>> 2.16.0
>>>>>
>>>>> pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
>>>>> 2.10.6
>>>>>
>>>>> pkg-config --modversion libgnomeprint-2.2
>>>>> 2.12.1
>>>> Ah, yeah, Fedora-7 era GnomePrint (pre GtkPrint) libraries.
>>>> As we're in the process of moving completely to Webkit (at least
>>>> I hope that's the goal) I think it's /probably/ safe to ignore
>>>> these old libraries.
>>>
>>> Well SuSE may be a bit slow on the gnome side. This distro is only about
>>> one year old.
>>
>> I revoke my statement. This coputer is still on SuSE 10.2 and the support
>> period for this distro has ended ...
>
> Ahh, yeah, like I said, Fedora-7 era.  I'm not sure offhand what version
> of Gnome Fedora-8 or 9 has, but I would hope that we should support any
> distros that were released by, say, May 1, 2008.
>
> My only concern is going to be RHEL/CentOS.  The most recent
> release/update (5.3) probably still has a relatively old Gnome/Gtk.  But
> then again RHEL5 is old enough that it doesn't fall into the May 1, 2008
> release-by date.  So I honestly don't think I care that much about it.
> GnuCash 2.2 works there just fine, and someone could backport the
> dependencies if they really want to run bleeding-edge gnucash.
>
> So I think we should target Fedora 9 and equivalent Ubuntu and SuSE
> releases from early 2008.
>
> -derek
>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available