Re: unreleased g-wrap considered harmful

[gregory benison]

This seems like a good opportunity to add to the prodding...

On 4/20/07, Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
> The build of guile-gnome-platform 2.7.99 in pkgsrc is failing with
> various problems that I think are due to gnome having moved since 2.7.99
> was released, but I get the impression I can't update to 2.15.90 because
> pkgsrc has, umm, the latest released g-wrap (1.9.6).  Does 2.15.90 need
> 1.9.6, as http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/dev/ says, or is it
> before the jump into using unreleased dependencies.

Next week at the Experimental NMR conference, a meeting attended by
hundreds of scientists,  I'm demonstrating the program burrow-owl
(www.burrow-owl.org) which depends on guile-gnome and g-wrap.  I can't
drop back to guile-gnome 2.7.99, which means I have to depend on the
unreleased g-wrap.  For this reason I have taken to bundling g-wrap
with my own sources.  Of course, it would be better to simply depend
on the latest release.

Just wanted to re-emphasize that a release of g-wrap would be useful
for several people...

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Gregory Benison
Oregon State University
gbenison at gmail dot com
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