[Gnobog-devel] Re: current status

[Detlef Vollmann]

[Hmmm, for some reason I didn't get the reply via the mailing list,
so it shows up in the archive (I did get my own message via the list).
So please CC me in future again, just to make sure.]

address@hidden wrote:
> I think now is a good time to contribute to gnobog :-)
> Working on 0.4.3 would have been a waste of time.
As I'm still working on getting the new version to compile (see below),
I went ahead an added my stuff for 0.4.3.  I'll send the patch
separately.

> The current version might crash a little and there are still a few
> bugs to iron out, but we'd like to have something releasable really
> soon now; you might help testing ?
I'll definitely do that.

> "cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gnobog login"
> "cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gnobog co gnobog-test"
Getting the source was the easy part ;-)
Actually, I first had to install gtk+-2, and that was not as straight
forward as I hoped (I really wanted to make sure not to mix up my
existing 1.2 installation with the new version).

> Then autogen.sh in gnobog-test should automake/autoconf/configure
> for you, but feel free to ask us if there are problems, I haven't
> tested this script for a long time.
I had to provide
 ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/gtk2/share/aclocal -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal"
and I'm still not sure whether this will work now (that gnome is
not Gnome2).
The last message I got is:
  "Autoconf version 2.53 or higher is required"
so I'm currently upgrading (it's busy with "make check").
After that I'll try again and come back if I'm have any trouble
that I can't solve myself.

> I'll keep this mail short; once you're ready, and if the new version
> already nearly suits your needs and you want to contribute, we'll
> talk about the code so that you don't lose too much time figuring it
> out - we haven't written any real developer documentation yet, though
> there might be a few notes in doc/.
Same to me; I'll come back when I have questions or before I'm going
to port my "X clipboard copy" to the new version.

Detlef

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