Hi.
I'd like to raise the question of dependency versions again. The
following dependencies come from the top of my head and should imo be
defined for 0.15 to allow patches for deprecation warnings and
contributions that make use of new functionality early in this cycle.
- Mono 2.0
Build time would give us type inference, object initializers. Runtime
could offer LINQ as the most desireable feature
- Mono.Addins 0.4
Improvements on Windows (no console Windows that pop up during startup),
fixes bug 575624 and 572088 (the latter explicitly requests this version)
- GTK 2.12
Already the version used on Windows. Actually I'm not sure what the
improvements on the other platforms are, but we could remove a lot of
deprecated/obsolete things from our code which generates warnings on newer
versions
- GMime 2.4
Requested in bug 565336
Defining a target version for these dependencies (and possible other
thigns I missed) would allow us to either work on that support _now_ or
push back the dependent things (like the bug).
Especially the gtk# and mono versions are interesting.
Just for reference: Banshee, which recently made some frontpages because
it was suggested to be the new/next Ubuntu default media player, requires
according to [1]:
- Mono >= 2.0
- Mono.Addins >= 0.4
- GTK# >= 2.12
Sandy: You said that some deployments are quite large and cannot easily
upgrade/are stuck with older versions of these libraries. Are those people
on this list?
Anyone else having special requirements that rule out any of these
dependencies? Do people care about build time dependencies at all?
Would love to get some feedback.
Ben
1:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/banshee_______________________________________________
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