[ITA] libnice-0.1.18-1

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Jan 14 15:29:51 GMT 2021


On 1/14/2021 10:11 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 1/14/2021 1:41 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 14.01.2021 03:53, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 1/10/2021 8:36 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:46:43 +0100, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
>>>>> On 10.01.2021 01:07, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>> Building on my system I found that gobject-introspection will need
>>>>> a rebuild for python3.
>>>>>
>>
>>
>>>> Although I'm not sure...
>>>> We might need to rebuild gobject-introspection, as Marco said,
>>>> and python*-mako also.
>>
>> I am uploading python*mako as test
>> I will also try to rebuild gobject-introspection
> 
> I've just pushed an update for python 3.8 to the playground branch at
> 
> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/gobject-introspection.git 
> 
> 
> That should be a good starting point for you.
>>> I can do a non-maintainer upload of gobject-introspection, rebuilt for 
>>> python3, to see if that helps.  I'm in the process of testing the build on 
>>> Scallywag at the moment.  I'm using python37 because of the mako requirement.
>>>
>>> I'd prefer to upgrade gobject-introspection to a more recent release rather 
>>> than just rebuilding the current release.  But, unfortunately, a more recent 
>>> gobject-introspection would require a more recent glib2.0. I'm not sure it's 
>>> a good idea to update glib2.0 without updating all of GNOME.  I tried to 
>>> start a discussion about this last May, but it didn't get very far:
>>
>> I will try the current version as first.
>> A further upgrade seems to need a major patch effort.
> 
> I played with gobject-introspection-1.64.1 last summer and updated the patches. 
>   If you're curious, you can find what I did in the 1.64 branch at the same 
> source repo that I cited above.  But in order to build it, I had to build and 
> install an updated glib2.0, since it required glib2.0 >= 2.58.0.  (I also used 
> pip to install python-markdown, which was a new build requirement.)
> 
> Maybe I'll take a little time right now to push my glib2.0 work in case someone 
> braver than I am wants to pick this up.

This is now on the playground branch at

   https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/glib2.0.git

Ken


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