Postler dependencies

[Mike Massonnet]

2011/1/24 Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de>:
> Am Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:59:30 +0100 schrieb Landry Breuil:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>> > Am Sonntag, den 23.01.2011, 15:33 +0100 schrieb Mike Massonnet:
>> >> Hi Christian,
>> >>
>> >> I'm looking up for building Postler, and I see it depends on
>> >> libindicator, which depends on libdbusmenu-glib and the command
>> >> line tool "al" which depends on Mono.
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible to have the indicator dependency optional? :)
>> >>
>> >> That would be great. Otherwise, is it a hard-dependency because
>> >> it's a project close to Ubuntu? Is it foreseeable in the future to
>> >> make this a soft-dependency? Perhaps can you explain why it is
>> >> necessary? Stopping the annoyance right now ;-)
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > I tried to build postler a few days ago and ws bitten by the same
>> > problem. In Fedora we don't have libindicate and I think the whole
>> > Ayatana stack is not much used outside of Ubuntu and perhaps
>> > OpenSUSE.
>>
>> I've built postler from git on OpenBSD some weeks ago when there were
>> no such dependencies.. and i'd also like to be able to build it now :)
>>
>> After linux-only software where bsd people struggle to port,
>> ubuntu-only software
>> where even linux people struggle to package ? :)
>
> You may be surprised to hear that I develop Postler on archlinux64 without Mono installed. And I chose to support indicators because I like the concept and use it myself.
>
> I built libindicate from bzr, though, which is probably not for everyone.
>
> I added --disable-libindicate as a configure option now.
>
> It is actually not painful with Vala, it's simply that nobody asked for it before.

Thank you :)

> --
> ciao,
>    Christian

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Mike