[Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu.vizoso at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anybody has thoughts about the convenience (or not) of making Sugar
> depend on the introspection stack in GNOME 3.0?
>
> The biggest practical downside will be that Sugar 0.90 will only run
> on next-cycle distros (Fedora 14, Ubuntu Maverick, etc) unless people
> backport a lot of other packages (not recommended nor likely).
>
> The upsides include: gradually dropping static bindings which are
> generally unmaintained, less memory use, less cpu usage during
> startup, access to new APIs such as GSettings and Telepathy-GLib.

I think its inevitable that we go that route. The only suggestion I
would ask about is the requirements to be able to support it on
RHEL/CentOS 6. Fedora 12/13 already had some introspection support so
is it much different in requirements to those in the initial
implementaiton as I think for long running suppor I believe there is a
desire to be able to use that platform. If they are new packages we
can easily add them into EPEL so that´s not too much of an issue, the
issue comes is if the upstream package is in RHEL mainline that we
can´t duplicate it.

Peter