Tracking Dependencies

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#1

What is considered the best way to track versions dependencies of GNOME project like glib, Pango, gtk…

I thought that tracking the git tag would be the best way, today when I am looking into https://gitlab.gnome.org/api/v4/projects/658/repository/tags, glib repo’s tags, I found the latest version is 2.67.1 so, I went through and thought the source will be at https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.67/glib-2.67.1.tar.xz as in it was for 2.67.0, but when I went there I found a 404.

If what I am doing is wrong can anybody help up with getting the latest version programically?

#2

It depends. What are you trying to achieve, really?

If you want to track the dependencies for your application, then: don’t do that. You should only ever change the dependency of your own project when you require new API/functionality.

If you want to track the dependencies because you’re packaging things, then you should look at the releases in the GNOME build.

#3

I have a small pet project that uses Pango and interfaces it python using Cython. I just wanted to have the latest Pango, been build into a wheel, for users installation only for windows. I want to test with the recent version as well as distribute it in a wheel. What I do is download things using a python script and build it, until now I was manually updating things but today I thought of writing a script to update things and just found this inconsistency.

I don’t understand what exactly I should do here. Can you explain?

#4

That would be because I tagged the GLib 2.67.1 release but then forgot to upload the tarball. Apologies. I’ve fixed it now. It might take a few minutes for the mirrors to update.

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#5

Thanks, @pwithnall

Again, the original question was on the best ways to track dependencies. So, I have something like this and is it ok to do so?

#6

You can literally use whatever you want. Of course, you should steer clear of unstable/development snapshots—those are generally using an odd minor component of the version number.

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#7

Also, this is where I do those things.

#8

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