[Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 17:10, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On 16 June 2010 04:27, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> These improvements sound really worthwhile, and if the technology is
> in F14 then it sounds mature enough as well.
> If someone is prepared to do the work I don't think they should feel
> held back by the concerns about backporting difficulties (thats not
> your problem)

It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have
to build some more modules in jhbuild for distros such as Debian which
won't have it for now in their current versions and that this will
raise significantly the bar for contributing.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Daniel
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