Xfce 4.18 dependencies versions

[andre at andreldm.com]

Hi Cyrille,
I'm not sure if you're aware, but with xfce-test[1] it's possible to develop with a container and graphics are provided via Xephyr. Alternatively, a virtual machine is a lot simpler.

1 - https://github.com/schuellerf/xfce-test

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

Aug 1, 2021, 09:06 by cyrille at enialis.net:

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> Hi Alistair,
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> If you want to contribute to Xfce-next even if your OS doesn’t have the required libs, you could compile required libraries in custom location, it’s not that hard, it just takes time.
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> If your contribution does not involve graphics or does not involve Xfce components interactions, you could also use a docker environment.
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> I ever wonder if it’s possible (meaning simple enough) to build against flatpak libraries (because it’s really easy to have a flatpak stack with recent Glib & co libraries)
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> My 2¢.
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> Cyrille
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> Le 2021-07-31 05:27, Alistair Buxton a écrit :
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>> I use Ubuntu LTS so this will effectively exclude me from contributing any patches until 2022, unless you want untested code.
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>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 18:45, <>> andre at andreldm.com>> > wrote:
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>>> Hi Romain,
>>> I agree with you and Alex, current "stable" distros should stick to 4.16, their next versions should target 4.18 if we don't delay it too much. I can't stress this enough: who wants bleeding edge packages, should use a bleeding edge distro, simple like that.
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>>> Cheers,
>>> Andre Miranda
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