[Sugar-devel] A heads up for the major changes that will appear in Fedora 15 / SoaS 5

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 20:10 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:27 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> >> AIUI, from discussions with Simon and Tomeu that's not the case. Gnome
>> >> people are not that insane, the old APIs will still work and be
>> >> supported.
>> >>
>> >> They won't be the latest coolest API wiz-bang so support may be
>> >> weaker, and/or we may get "ah, well, the bug you mention is fixed in
>> >> the introspection API, migrate to that" instead of a fix to the
>> >> problem you report.
>> >>
>> >> Personally, I don't mind *not* being in the bleeding edge for one cycle :-)
>> >
>> > I agree with you. There's no hurry to switch to GNOME 3 and there are
>> > higher priority tasks at this time.
>>
>> So are we saying that we don't want sugar on a stick for the F-15
>> release cycle and are happy to have it dropped from the Fedora Spins
>> and someone else is prepared do the work to get it back to that
>> status? Or do people generally not care about SoaS?
>
> Is Fedora already dropping all the gnome2 libraries??
> I can't believe this.

Nope. But they're all compiled against gtk3 and things will be changed
in pygtk / gobject-introspection as mentioned which will likely affect
sugar.

Peter