[maemo-developers] Maemo's glib version, lobbying for GIO

[From: Tommi Komulainen]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:21 +0100, ext Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> My questions ...
> 
> Therefore I wonder about what the plan is for Maemo's glib version. How
> soon will Maemo upgrade? What can we do to help speeding up GIO's
> inclusion into Maemo? Would a standalone version be acceptable?

In general we prefer stable releases (personally I'd say starting
from .6 or so) but we also backport specific things. At the moment there
is no strong demand for GIO so it's not too high up in priority list.
We'll get GIO latest when we upgrade to 2.16.

Then again GIO is just an add-on so it could be easily introduced
without breaking anything, but all work requires resources we could
currently use more elsewhere.

I mean you'd need to do things like coming up with a migration path from
no-GIO -> glib-without-official-GIO -> glib-with-GIO, figure out when to
introduce what (taking into account release plans we're not at liberty
to discuss - duh!), how/who would deal with bugfixes and periodical
catchup with upstream, etc.


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Tommi Komulainen                            <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>