Update anjuta to 2.91.x release

[Johannes Schmid]

Binary package hint: anjuta

The 2.91.x release series is the development cycle that will lead to anjuta 3.0 which will be released together with GNOME 3.0 to be ready for Ubuntu 11.04. It would be great to have that development releases in the Ubuntu Natty Alpha/Beta to get user testing.

Anjuta 2.91.x depends on:
* GNOME 2.91.x stack (already in natty)
* gdl 3.0 (parallel installable with gdl 2.x)
* glade 3.9.0/1 (optional, parallel installable with glade 3.7/8)
* devhelp 2.91.x (optional)

The next GNOME (and as such anjuta) release will be on 12th January 2011 and should be solid enough for user testing in an alpha/beta release.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The new anjuta is in the GNOME3 ppa: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3

Would it work fine on a GNOME 2.32 environment? Or does it use gsettings keys from GNOME where 2.32 still use gconf? We will probably keep it in the ppa this cycle

[Johannes Schmid (jhs.schmid)]

Until now, we don't use any gsettings keys from GNOME 3.x. It might be possible that the terminal plugin will check gsettings keys of gnome-terminal in the future but in that case it would just fail gracefully if those are not found.

But I cannot speak for glade/devhelp here.

But good to know that it is at least available in the "official" ppa for now.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I looked into this earlier in the cycle and I recall a dependency using the new gsettings. I don't recall which right now.

[Johannes Schmid (jhs.schmid)]

If this is the only thing preventing you from shipping Anjuta 3.0 in Natty I would be very happy to fix it if you have any details. I am currently not aware of anything depending on desktop-wide gsettings-keys. Of course gsettings/dconf itself will be required.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you require a new gedit for example?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is also the optional you list, what will happen with anjuta3 without the new glade?

[Johannes Schmid (jhs.schmid)]

No, non of the other GNOME3 modules should be required. As I said, if the new gnome-terminal is installed we might inherit some of it's settings but if it isn't there it won't matter.

Anjuta3 isn't very useful without the new glade3 (and as such the glade plugin available) because all the tutorial that will soon show up on developer.gnome.org assume that you have Anjuta3 with glade enabled. Devhelp would be nice but isn't super important.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, so it means we should at least try to get the new glade in before we get the new anjuta if we want to update this cycle

[Johannes Schmid (jhs.schmid)]

Yes, I think that would be a good approach.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, debian got the new glade in experimental but it conflicts with the gtk2 version since they use the same directories for their user documentation

[Johannes Schmid (jhs.schmid)]

If it isn't possible for natty (which I can understand regarding the general Ubuntu GNOME policy) would it be possible to update the package in the gnome3-ppa? It currently has 2.91.3 which is very old and it is missing glade completely.

Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

oneiric has anjuta 3 as does the gnome3-team ppa for natty, closing the bug