Re: [PATCH 05/22] Update libnotify to version 0.7.6

[Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/20/2015 12:41 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:

> Emotional part: I am sorry for my last email's style and I hope this
> does not cause lack of motivation on your side. This was definitely
> not an email that should have gone out this way.

Thank you Andreas, I very much appreciate you saying this. Also my email 
had the wrong tone, a bit too blunt and provocative perhaps.

> Technical part: Although your patches break things I think _now_ that
> they point in the right direction. The old gnome stuff turns into a
> maintenance burden with every new tool/library introduced. As Martin
> pointed out: I have tried to update libnotify two years ago and
> stopped due to huge fallout.
> Now we expect same but the situation is different: We have stable
> releases of better quality than two years ago. If still interested in
> gnome 2 style user experience and not accepting gnome 3 one could work
> with releases (or implement/use alternatives Mate/Xfce..).

I have looked at recent commit history for meta-gnome; my impression is 
that it only gets ad-hoc patching so that things still compile, and 
nobody is doing a systematic effort to keep things up to date and 
working. So the layer is effectively unmaintained and slowly bit rots.

> One note regarding gnome 3: I played around with gnome 3 long time ago
> but stopped messing around with gobject-introspection which looked
> mandatory for some packages. I think if we want to migrate meta-gnome
> to gnome 3 we should think of migrating meta-gir to meta-gnome.

Yes; getting gobject-introspection to work and perhaps taking it into 
oe-core is something that we'd really like to do, so I plan to look at 
it when I have a bit of breathing space later this or next week.


Regards,
Alex