Re: [PATCH] gnunet-gtk: adds --with-gnunet to configure-flags

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net> writes:

> I'll ask on gnunet-dev about this, but it might be that we have
> to decide wether to default to some svn of gnunet, as 0.10.1 is
> really old. Stable, but old.. Which possibly could affect the
> experience for people who try to use gnunet now, before any
> applications like secushare are running on it. plus you need -svn
> if you want to hack on or testrun application which develop on
> top of / inside gnunet.
>
> Guix should provide a stable experience, but if stable means too
> old to deliver a useable experience of an still in development
> network, what do we suggest? I would not replace gnunet and
> gnunet-gtk, I would just make gnunet-svn the default (gnunet will
> default to gnunet-svn) and gnunet-0.10.1 will have to be
> installed explicitly.
> There are only a few open bugs until the next GNUnet release will
> be done, but 0.10.1 is just terribly old.

The reply to my bug report said something similar.  If version 0.10.1 is
so old that upstream suggest taking the latest from SVN I suppose we
should do this too.

I do hope there will be a new release soon, though, as I don’t like to
use some arbitrary SVN checkout.

~~ Ricardo