Re: guile-gtk

[Thamer Al-Harbash]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Greg Troxel wrote:

> It would be really nice if a tarball of the head of the gtk 1.2 branch
> of guile-gtk were created and released; it is probably better than the
> latest tarball that's out there.

Yes. It is impossible to release an application that uses
guile-gtk if the old release still lingers in people's
filesystems.

> I know everyone really just like to play with arch and not do
> releases.  But for these projects (guile-gtk and guile-gobject) to get
> used by "users", it's necessary to release tarballs.  I'm trying to
> use guile-gtk on a project (as a tool, not trying to hack on it), and
> I had to make my own tarball and then my own netbsd pkgsrc entry for
> it.  Not a big deal, but it's harder than using something else.

I hear you. I sent a patch to Marius which I hope he commits,
after that I'm going to bug him and see if he'd like some help
managing releases for guile-gtk.

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Thamer Al-Harbash
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