Re: gnome_vfs and friends are from the 'unstable' branch

Ryan Schmidt escribi=F3:
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 15:20, Frank McPherson wrote:
>
>> On Sep 2, 2006, at 23:44, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>>> gnome-vfs is broken (but I'm testing and providing feedback to
>>> Randall on
>>> this score) ... a lot of the Gnome Desktop ports are dependent on
>>> gnome-vfs
>>
>> I noted a recent email indicating that gnome_vfs is broken, but
>> without details as to how/why.
>>
>> Last night I sent a message about my problems installing libgnomeui,
>> which is in the library dependency tree for gnucash. It wouldn't
>> surprise me if these problems are related.
>>
>> Also, I did some reading on the gnome web site and discovered that
>> their odd-numbered releases are 'unstable development series intended
>> for testing and hacking purposes'.
>>
>> Is it wise or typical for macports to follow the unstable branch of a
>> project like gnome with lots of ports depending on it?
>>
>> Personally, I am more interested in the stable branch.
>
> Yes, MacPorts should be following the stable version of the product.
> If an unstable version is also desired for early adopters, then there
> should be a separate port foo-devel.
>
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I have same problem with libgnomeui and yelp.

When the problem will be solved?

Thanks.