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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:20:31PM +0200, myken wrote:
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> But what I would like to know is where the agreement "use a minimum Gnome
> version" is written. And also important are there more of these
> "agreements".
It depends on which libraries and functions we use in the project. We
have to follow main distributions such as Debian in order to not be
thrown out of them.

> >>A newbie should know these.
> >Are you experienced with the tools used by the project? Remember that
> >learning those tools is significantly different from learning about
> >geda and friends.
> I have a basic understanding of the Autotools and the Gnu build system. Are
> there more tools used? And could I encourage you to elaborate on that a
> little? It would be very helpful. ;-)

I tried hard to finish reading of libtool.info, without success yet.
You can find some initial concepts there, if you'll want to read it :)
I don't know if any not so large howto exists.

Cheers,
  Vladimir