[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Re: iso-codes releases

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

F.Y.I. 

Version 0.58 seems OK.  I updated a GARNOME-2.17.x environment to use
version 0.58 and have not [yet] seen any ill effects.

-Joseph

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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 10:31 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 11/1/06, Tobias Toedter <t.toedter at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:41, guenther wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:41 +0100, Tobias Toedter wrote:
> > > > I like the idea of having a symlink which points to the latest
> > > > available version. I don't know if this is helping the GNOME people,
> > > > though. However, it should not be a problem to leave old releases of
> > > > iso-codes on the server, instead of deleting them.
> > >
> > > As far as GARNOME, the build utility for the GNOME Desktop, is
> > > concerned, we would need old tarballs to be left on the server. By
> > > default GARNOME checks the MD5 hash of each (automatically) downloaded
> > > tarball, thus a moving "latest" target unfortunately does not help.
> > > Keeping old releases would rock. :)
> >
> > OK, let's rock, then. :)
> >
> > Are there any specific releases which you currently need? We could then
> > regenerate those tarballs first. At the moment, we provide tarballs for
> > iso-codes 0.57 and 0.58.
> 
> The gnome 2.16.0, 2.16.1, and 2.17.1 jhbuild modulesets (jhbuild is
> the other build utility for GNOME besides GARNOME) all look for
> iso-codes 0.53.  I think having that version would be most helpful as
> far as jhbuild is concerned.  guenther is the best one to report on
> what would most help GARNOME.
> 
> Thanks for working on this; it'll help a lot.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Elijah
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