[Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 20:13, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> The way I see it, activities can't really use PyGI until it's a sugar
> dependency. The sooner it is available as a dependency on all relevant
> platforms (debian being one of them), the sooner important things like
> Browse can start using it.
>
> So, how about making some packages for all relevant platforms? There
> can be some PPAs for ubuntu and some repos for debian and whatever
> other platforms we care about. This will be some work, but I'm sure
> other projects are interested in this as well.

Ideally, distros will keep up with what their downstreams do, but the
reality is quite different:

http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2010/05/ubuntu-and-gobject-introspection.html

When upstreams try to reach their downstreams and pass the most
important messages, things go a bit better, but that won't scale.

The telepathy guys are already working into backporting the relevant
packages to their Lucid PPA.

That said, once people knew that PyGI was working on Maverick, they
started trying to port their apps there, with some success already as
this ticket shows:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621207

Regards,

Tomeu

> On 18 June 2010 18:59, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On 18 June 2010 12:20, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org>
>>> No, they're my problem because I develop Sugar on Debian systems. Can you afford to leave me behind? Is it worth the advantage of being able to use introspection (or whatever other bleeding edge technology that requires modifying major system libraries instead of just installing additional ones) right now?
>>
>> Regardless of who or which, I don't think its right that the problems
>> of a single developer or distribution should hold back the rest of the
>> Sugar project, which is realistically much much larger than that.
>>
>> Daniel
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