[OE-core] [PATCH 05/22] Update libnotify to version 0.7.6

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Alexander Kanavin
> <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On 06/18/2015 03:35 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>
>>> I think gtk3 is not the problem here it is the API change libnotify
>>> 0.6 -> 0.7 which cannot (or only by ugly hacks) be installed parallel.
>>> Do we know what happens to meta-gnome/meta-xfce?
>>
>>
>> The packages in meta-gnome that fail because of new libnotify are all five
>> year old, unmaintained 2.32.something versions.
>>
>> Let's just accept that meta-gnome needs to get a massive update to 3.x,
>> those who don't like gnome 3.x need to seek alternative desktops and move
>> on.
>>
> Cool: you send patches having no idea what efforts are caused and give
> helping hints as 'let's move on'. From my experience guys like you
> will not give any support in 'moving on' as the only scope is academic
> 'core-image-sato' building green for quemux86.
>
> Over and out
>
Hi Alexander,

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.

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..).
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.

Andreas