[Sugar-devel] Problem with Jhbuild and Fedora 11

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 15:56, Daniel Castelo
<dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Sascha Silbe
> <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>>
>> Excerpts from Daniel Castelo's message of Wed Jul 14 18:15:01 +0000 2010:
>> > I think that we talked about this problem before, I want to install
>> > jhbuild
>> > on fedora 11 and I get this error message. Seems like the problem is a
>> > dependency between jhbuild and gtk.
>> > should Jhbuild work over f11?
>> F11 has reached its end of life some weeks ago [1]. I'm rather reluctant
>> on supporting and spending effort on something that doesn't even receive
>> security updates anymore. Quite on the contrary, I'm glad F11 has finally
>> reached EOL so I can clean up sugar-jhbuild a bit.
>
> Ok, we have to move to a next version.
> With tomeu's suggestion (download metacity 2.28.1 tarball) jhbuild works
> fine.
> This is just a workaround for F11 or we should submit a patch with this?

Sascha is the sugar-jhbuild maintainer, so if he says that we should
drop F11 and you want to keep using it, then either you make a deal
with him or you will have to maintain your own fork of it.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks
>
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>>
>> sugar-jhbuild is meant for Sugar core hacking. If you just want to run
>> Sugar (including developing activities), please use native distribution
>> packages instead.
>>
>>
>> Sascha
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html
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