why no new GNOME 3 snapshot in F14?

[Jesse Keating]

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On 09/29/2010 09:02 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> I just had a discussion with Owen about the state of F14+gnome-shell,
> and wanted to give an update on why we decided not to try updating it
> from the current state (last updated Jul 13), and concentrate on F15
> instead.
> 
> So most of the development has been happening in git/jhbuild, and we
> haven't even managed to get rawhide updated due to the XULRunner
> changes (work on rawhide is proceeding now,
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622896 for the curious).
> 
> Now, multiple things would need to occur for F14:
>   - Separate clutter 1.4 parallel install package
>     Impact on critical path: None.  Sort of ugly is the only thing.
> 
>   - Updated GTK3 package
>     Impact on critical path: Low/None (some things in F14 oddly
> require gtk3 that shouldn't, like seed...needs investigation).  But
> we'd *also* have to look at either updating packages like
> gnome-desktop3 (or removing them).
> 
>   - gobject-introspection 0.9.5+
>     This implies simple rebuilds of a lot of packages for the
> lookaside GIR/.typelib data, which is straightforward.  However,
> updating to this version also implies pulling in a new pygobject,
> which has had quite a bit of code changes.  Upstream feels confident,
> but it's just one thing that weighs against an update (a possible
> alternative path is to disable introspection from pygobject).
> 
> So the alternative here is:
>   - Add a warning/note to F14 gnome-shell that it's old and to:
>   - Make it easier and better to run F15/rawhide.  Which involves
> fixing the problems there, and scripting the rpm/yum foo better to
> make the switch, and being a lot more aggressive about preventing
> regressions.

What about hosting a repos.fp.o for gnome-shell in F14?

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Jesse Keating
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