guile-gtk release?

[Greg Troxel]

I looked at CVS and saw there has been some activity.
On the web page

  http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gtk/download/

appears

  For the time being, release tarballs are not available. Please use the
  development snapshots from CVS and Arch.

This is very unfriendly for a mostly mature, heading towards end of
life project (not because of anything wrong with guile-gtk, but
because gtk 1.2 is deprecated).  In June I made an unofficial tarball
to I could add this to pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net.

Is there any reason why the current CVS can't be made into 0.41 (this
would skip 0.40 and make things easier for me, since the pkgsrc
version is 0.40.90 because I misinterpreted the beta tag.  There seems
to be a real reluctance to make a tarball, and I find this baffling.

I just made a 0.40.91 tarball from CVS, and put it up at:

  http://www.ir.bbn.com/~gdt/pkgsrc-wip/

Do distributions such as debian package software like this that only
exists in CVS?  I would expect the current situation to prevent
guile-gtk from being available in binary packages etc.  Surely this is
not a good situation.

<flamebait>Even guile-gnome has release tarballs now.  :-)</>

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        Greg Troxel <address@hidden>