On 5/23/2020 2:08 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 5/22/2020 7:18 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
I've been planning to adopt gimp and some related build dependencies. My
reason is that I use gimp and would like to see it kept up to date.
I thought I had all the prerequisites I needed. But when I built gimp, I
discovered that it used two functions, g_set_weak_pointer and
g_date_time_new_from_iso8601, that were introduced in glib-2.56.
[gimp's configure.ac says that it only requires glib 2.54.2, but this seems to
be wrong. Cygwin's glib is at 2.54.3. Fedora's is at 2.64.3, which is the
latest upstream release.]
I'd appreciate some advice about how to proceed. I'm not interested in
adopting all of GNOME, and it probably doesn't make sense for different
components of GNOME to be adopted by different people.
A short-term solution (from my personal POV) would be for me to do a
non-maintainer update of glib to 2.56, assuming that's doable without messing
up other GNOME components.
A better solution (again from my personal POV) would be for someone to adopt
GNOME and update it to its latest release.
To focus the discussion a little better, I've built and installed
glib2.0-2.56.4. My cygport file and patches are attached. I can now build
gimp-2.10.18, and it seems to run fine in limited testing.
Sorry to keep replying to myself, but I have some further thoughts.
1. It's probably unrealistic to expect someone to adopt all the GNOME
components. If such a person existed, I think we would have heard from him/her
by now.
2. I'm willing to adopt various components on an as-needed basis. For example,
since I want to update gimp and it needs an updated glib2.0, I'm willing to
adopt the latter and update it to its latest release. I've just started working
on it and discovered that it needs an updated gtk-doc, so I'll plan on adopting
that too.
3. I don't use the GNOME desktop environment, so I am not going to adopt
packages like gnome-session, gnome-flashback, etc., which I can't easily test.
If no one objects, I'll continue sending ITAs and updating individual GNOME
components as I need them.
Ken
