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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] gnome-1 && gtk-perl
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:32:34
Message-Id: 200611260831.53024.mcummings@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-perl] gnome-1 && gtk-perl by Michael Cummings
1 OK...not even a whisper, so I'm guessing I was the only perl person that liked
2 having the gtk-perl bindings around. I'll go forward with the maskings :/
3
4 On Monday 20 November 2006 08:00, Michael Cummings wrote:
5 > As most of you are probably aware, the gnome team has decided to remove
6 > gnome-1 from the tree because it is a drain on their resources to support
7 > (my wording for it). While I can sympathize and understand the argument, we
8 > (perl) have more than a few modules/apps that rely on this gnome-1 support
9 > to function. A few Gentoo developers, such as spyderous, have offered to
10 > continue to support gnome-1 to help keep their apps alive, and have asked
11 > if we would like to be a part of that. Rather than arbitrarily say yes all
12 > on my lonesome (since we all know my hard core c/c++ skills are lacking),
13 > I'd like to ask your opinions. Just to give a brief sample, we're talking
14 > about packages like gtk-perl, glade-perl (which would be moved under
15 > gtk-perl per a pending bug, but I didn't see the point in pursuing that
16 > while gtk-perl was package.masked), bins, and the associated modules.
17 >
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21 > Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl
22 > Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net
23 > Gentoo/SPARC
24 > Gentoo/AMD64
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31 Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl
32 Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net
33 Gentoo/SPARC
34 Gentoo/AMD64
35 GPG: 0543 6FA3 5F82 3A76 3BF7 8323 AB5C ED4E 9E7F 4E2E
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38 Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Please copy me in your ~/.signature.

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Re: Re: [gentoo-perl] gnome-1 && gtk-perl Aaron Kulbe <akulbe@×××××.com>