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Simon McVittie 7f4f328a7f Specify API versions for all public GIR APIs, except GLib 
If one of these libraries breaks its GIR API in future, then upgrading
packages unrelated to gnome-shell might pull in the newer version,
causing gnome-shell to crash when it gets a newer GIR API that is
incompatible with its expectations. For example, this seems to be
happening in Debian testing at the moment, when GNOME Shell 41.4
imports GWeather and can get version 4.0 instead of the version 3.0 that
it expected.

Adding explicit API versions at the time the newer version is released
is too late, because that will still let the newer version of the GIR API
break pre-existing GNOME Shell packages. Prevent similar crashes in
future by making the desired versions explicit.

This is done for all third-party libraries except GLib, similar to the
common practice in Python code; if GLib breaks API, then that will be
a disruptive change to the whole GLib/GObject ecosystem, regardless.

Gvc, Meta, Shell, Shew, St are not included because they're private
(only exist in a non-default search path entry).

Clutter and Cogl *are* included, because we need to import the fork of
them that comes with Meta, as opposed to their deprecated standalone
versions.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1008926
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2261>
2022-04-04 17:55:25 +01:00
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build-aux build: Use meson's gnome.post_install() 2021-12-23 15:52:21 +00:00
data Bump version to 42.0 2022-03-12 22:43:13 +01:00
js Specify API versions for all public GIR APIs, except GLib 2022-04-04 17:55:25 +01:00
po extensions-app: Move Extensions app to new subproject 2020-03-27 23:33:30 +00:00
subprojects extensions-app: Move Extensions app to new subproject 2020-03-27 23:33:30 +00:00
COPYING extensions-app: Move Extensions app to new subproject 2020-03-27 23:33:30 +00:00
generate-translations.sh subprojects: Use meson compile to generate translations 2021-08-24 08:18:26 +00:00
logo.png extensions-app: Update README 2020-03-29 17:49:08 +00:00
meson_options.txt extensions-app: Support building a separate Devel app 2021-02-11 17:45:00 +01:00
meson.build Bump version to 42.0 2022-03-12 22:43:13 +01:00
README.md extensions-app: Add flathub badge to README 2020-04-05 11:02:00 +00:00

README.md

logo GNOME Extensions

GNOME Extensions is a small application for managing GNOME Shell extensions. It is usually built as part of gnome-shell, but can be used as a stand-alone project as well.

Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.

Installation

If Extensions is not already installed on your GNOME system, we recommend getting it from flathub.

Download on Flathub

Building

Before the project can be built stand-alone, the po directory has to be populated with translations (from gnome-shell).

To do that, simply run the included script:

$ ./generate-translations.sh

License

gnome-extensions-app is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.