Re: new packages policy

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:48:23PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > it seems i'm getting closer to be able to compile gtk+ for mingw32. > unfortunately i spend way too much time with glib1 and gtk-1.2.x, but > from this page it's turn out it was just waste of time:-( > http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html > -------------------------------------- > "The GTK+ API was still mostly like GTK+ 1.2.7, which is what was > current when this branch was created. Unfortunately, very few of the > platform-independent fixes (in the gtk widgets) that went into GTK+ 1.2 > since 1.2.7 are present. Unlike GTK+ 1.2 on Unix, GTK+ 1.3.0 on Windows > is built to use GLib 2.x. There is no binary distribution of any GLib > 1.2 for Windows." > -------------------------------------- > so i try to compile this version (and not the one in fedora). > my question should i put into my own repo or add to your hg repo or just > create a new review request? > and the same question apply to the next weeks brunch of gstreamer > packages (and it's dependencies) too? > thanks. IMHO we should not package GTK+ for MinGW. This is a seriously ancient library essentially unmaintained at this point, and no modern apps should be using it. Even on native there little of consquence that wants this ancient code & desire to kill it off entirely, and we shouldn't encourage its use on Windows