From: David S. <on...@gm...> - 2010-06-29 18:25:15
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:05:44 +0300 Tom Hacohen <to...@st...> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri < > bar...@pr...> wrote: > > > On the dependencies and distros, although Fedora does ship with the > > new version, some distros do not as few software *depends* on that > > lib. Although gtk/pango uses it, they have their own copy statically > > linked and do not depend on that lib. > > > > I'm aware that not everyone ship latest FriBiDi, though I can confirm > Arch and Ubuntu do. Anyhow, this FriBiDi version is an year and a > half old, the distros had enough time to upgrade. Furthermore, > FriBiDi 0.19.2 includes a lot more cool stuff I intend on using and > therefore drop 0.10.x support completely. I think that Arabic users > that want e17 with Arabic support will have to either compile FriBiDi > themselves, or put some pressure on their distros maintainers. > Furthermore, IIRC FriBiDi's project leader recommends on using 0.19.2 > and dropping the old version, so again, there's really no reason why > to stay behind on this one, I don't even think conditional compiling > is in order here, it should just get removed. It's good to see this sort of thought and restraint going into dependency versions. Too often I have seen people forcing the use latest bleeding edge, only an hour old, versions; where the coders keyboard is still warm from the last debugging session. Well done. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. |