Re: gEDA: A complaint about glib-2.6 in libgeda

[Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt-at-NOSPAMrecycle_dot_lbl_dot_gov>]

Friends -

I can't resist adding my own comments any more.  Sorry.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:56:01PM +0100, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> >Anything that provides a COMPLETE package where you get everything 
> >with one down load, and you just do ./configure, make, make install is 
> >the world to aim for.
> 
> This is what I prefer, too. Merging all the geda stuff into a singe tar 
> file with a combined top leven configure script.

Here's what I want, and indeed have already, call it option 0:

apt-get install geda

In fact, I have that now.  The reasons to do anything else are:
  1.  You don't use Debian or Ubuntu, in which case you have a
      similar command based on rpm/yum/package-manager-of-the-month.
  2.  You don't use Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, FC, gentoo, or any other
      mainstream and supported operating system.  In that case you
      have a deeper problem, one that is outside the scope of gEDA.
  3.  You're a developer, in which case you pull stuff out of CVS.
  4.  You want the simple case (options 0 or 1), but the {apt,rpm,...}
      package maintainers are behind the times, and you've heard
      that more recent copies have fixed a bug that you've hit.

If we discuss packaging less and focus on the software itself,
the importance of option 4 will diminish with time, and everybody
is taken care of.

I purposefully leave those shackled to Microsoft out of the above
picture.  Presumably there is a difference of opinion around here
as to whether they should be categorized under option 1 or 2 above.
Fortunately, as long as someone in the believes-in-option-1 camp
is willing to act on that notion, Microsoft users and Unix bigots
can happily ignore each other.

The only discussion left is back where we started: the developers
need to negotiate with the package maintainers what library
versions are reasonable to require.  If nothing else, there
should be a wiki table around listing what versions of gEDA
are available on what operating systems, and the library versions
are part of that equation.

People brought up RH7.[23].  Boggle.  Those machines must be
fully isolated (air gap) from the Internet, right?  Or do they
run in VMware?

    - Larry

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