On 07/14/2018 08:16 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 13 July 2018 at 22:12, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2018 04:46 PM, Mukundan Ragavan wrote:
>> What does everyone on this list think about updating xfce components to
>> xfce 4.13.x versions in rawhide and consequently, Fedora 29?
>>
>> As far as I can tell, these are quite stable although they are labeled
>> as development versions. Xubuntu also seems to moving in that general
>> direction [1].
>>
>> The biggest advantage is that we will move most of the components to
>> GTK-3. I have not seen too many issues based on my COPR (As an aside, I
>> will update several packages there in the coming week).
>>
>> Please comment. Who is for and against moving early to Xfce 4.13.x? I
>> would like to move forward only if we consensus.
>
> I'm not sure it's the best idea since we have no idea when 4.14 will
> ever be released. That said, the 4.13.x stuff does seem to be pretty
> stable, and there's a lot of people who would like the new features...
>
> So, I won't stand in the way if folks would like to go ahead here.
>
I wonder if making these 'modules' would work better. That way a
person could choose to stay on the 4.12 stream until 4.14 came out and
4.13 if they are adventurous?
I think that might work. We could make a 4.13 module that overrides the
4.12 ones in the base repos. However, it would mean you would have to
install with 4.12 and enable the module to get 4.13, I don't think
there's any way to make media from modules.
Also, dnfdragora would need to know how to deal with modules, as I don't
think it currently does and we ship it on the spin.
I'm not sure how much nicer a module is from a copr in the end though...
you have to enable either one and update from it.
kevin