Re: RFC: How to organize guile-gnome

[Andreas Rottmann]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

>   My mail was mainly how to organize stuff from a source configuration
>   managment POV, not so much how we then partition our modules into
>   release tarballs.
>
> I think we are in agreement.  From the packager point of view, I want
> to split guile-gnome into pieces to avoid unnecessary dependencies.
>
>   > I think it would be really unfortunate if one needed to install
>   > gstreamer to build guile-gnome.
>   >
>   All bit the first (glib/gobject) will be optional in any build (it is
>   already).
>
> The possible problem is that it should be possible to build the core
> part and install it, and then build the other parts seperately (as
> opposed to rebuilding the whole thing with more options enabled).
>
Hmm, I don't quite get you; it should be possible to build all parts
that have their *external* dependencies satisfied, so you don't need
to build a part, install that and then go on, so if you have Glib,
libglade, libgda but not GTK+ installed, the bindings for the first
three will build and install, while the GTK+ binding will be left out.

> Eg:
>
> guile-gobject depends on glib2 and guile
> guile-gobject-corba depnds on guile-gobject and ORBit2
> guile-gtk depends on guile-object and gtk
> guile-glade depends on guile-gtk and glade2 (or libglade2)
>
> From this view, having a huge tarball is ok if one can easily take
> parts of it to build/install.
>
I think that this is the case right now.

> This may just be separate install targets for the segments.  But
> separate tarballs that each install just their part (and rely on the
> dependent ones being installed already) is the easiest way,
> mentally.
>
Hmm, I think the current model is easy to grasp: configure checks all
*external* dependencies, the bindings for those satisfied are built
(and installed on 'make install').

Andy
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